BAGHDAD: Three suicide bombers detonated explosives belts among Shiites in Iraq on Thursday, killing at least 36 people, while militants shot dead a family of five, officials said.

The deadliest attack hit the Dura area of south Baghdad, where a bomber targeted visitors at a tent, killing at least 20 people and wounding at least 40.

Among those killed in the blast was Muhanad Mohammed, a journalist who had worked for both foreign and Iraqi media, one of his sons told AFP.

Two more bombers targeted Shiites in areas south of Baghdad — one in Yusifiyah, killing eight people and wounding at least 32, and another in Latifiyah, killing at least eight people and wounding at least 18.

At Yarmuk Hospital in Baghdad, wounded people were rushed in on gurneys for treatment. Those injured included children and an old woman whose face was covered in blood.

Also on Thursday, militants dressed in army uniforms attacked the house of an anti-Al-Qaeda militiaman in the Abu Ghraib area, west of Baghdad, killing him, his wife and their three children.

Meanwhile, Iraq has executed seven people over the past two days convicted on terrorism charges, the justice minister said on Thursday.

The seven “were found guilty under Article IV of the anti-terrorism law,” Justice Minister Hassan Al-Shammari said in a statement, adding that all seven were Iraqi nationals.