November 29, 2012 -- Updated 1205 GMT (2005 HKT) NEW: A car bomb attack on an Iraqi police patrol in Mosul kills 2, injures 4, police say Baghdad (CNN) -- At least 29 people were killed Thursday morning in Iraq, police officials said, as bomb attacks struck the country for a third day running. Sixteen more people were killed and another 75 wounded when two car bombs exploded outside popular restaurants in a commercial area of Hilla, about 62 miles (100 kilometers) south of Baghdad, police officials said. Both Hilla and Twareej, which is near the southern holy city of Karbala, are predominantly Shiite communities. A car bomb attack on an Iraqi police patrol in al-Karama neighborhood in northern Mosul killed at least two people and injured four others, Mosul police officials said. Mosul is a predominantly Sunni city in the north of the country. In central Falluja, another mostly Sunni town about 60 kilometers west of Baghdad, a suicide car bomber struck a joint police and army checkpoint outside a local bank, local police officials said. At least three Iraqi soldiers were killed and five other people were wounded, including three police officers. Police officials earlier said two people were killed and five others were wounded in an attack on a police checkpoint.