BAGHDAD - Suicide bombers targeted Shiite worshippers as they left morning prayers Thursday at two Baghdad mosques, killing 17 people and injuring more than 30 others, police said.

In a separate attack, gunmen fatally shot six people as they were traveling in a minibus in Wajihiyah, a town about 60 miles north of Baghdad.

The dead included two children, three women and a man, police in Diyala province said. Another woman and her small child were injured.

The bombings in Baghdad occurred as Shiite worshippers were celebrating the holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan.

No group claimed responsibility but attacks on Shiite civilians are widely associated with Sunni extremists such as al-Qaida in Iraq in a bid to reignite the sectarian conflict that plunged the nation to the brink of civil war two years ago.

In the deadliest attack, a suicide car bomber in a white Mercedes sedan detonated his explosives about 20 yards from a mosque in Zafaraniyah in southeastern Baghdad. He set off the bomb when Iraqi soldiers tried to stop him from approaching the building, police said.

That attack killed 12 people, including three Iraqi soldiers, and injured 23, police said.

In the other attack, a suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt as worshippers were leaving the Rasoul mosque in the capital's eastern New Baghdad district. Five people died and nine were injured, police said.

The police officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.

A witness to the Zafaraniyah attack said he saw a white car speed toward the mosque and then heard a huge explosion that sparked a fire and heavy smoke. Ammar Hashim, 25, who runs a car parts shop nearby, rushed to the site and saw "a damaged and burned Humvee with dead and burned bodies and many injured people crying out in pain."

"Pools of blood and the smell of burned flesh was everywhere and I saw a man of about 70 bleeding and lying on earth from injuries," said Hashim, whose brother was also injured by smashed glass in his shop.

Hashim said civilian cars began to rush people to a nearby hospital before ambulances arrived.

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Associated Press writers Hamid Ahmed and Saad Abdul-Kadir contributed to this report.