Series of car bombs kill five in Iraq

• In one incident three car bombs exploded
• Another incident involved a car bomb that exploded near an outdoor market

Baghdad (CNN) -- A series of attacks in and north of Baghdad left five dead and 22 wounded Thursday, Iraqi police said.

In one incident, three parked car bombs exploded outside residential buildings in the Taji area about 20 km (12 miles) north of Baghdad Thursday morning leaving two dead and 15 wounded, police said.

Later in a western Baghdad neighborhood, a parked car bomb exploded near an outdoor market killing one person and wounding seven others.

Also in the city of Samarra, some 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, a gunmen shot and killed two members of a local awakening council.

The Awakening Councils, also known as the Sons of Iraq, are made up predominantly of Sunni Arab fighters who turned on Iraq's al Qaeda militants in late 2006.