BAGHDAD, Iraq — A car bomb killed five people today and wounded another 34 when it exploded near a restaurant in central Baghdad.

Bombing and shootings killed at least 21 people in and around the capital, and police reported finding 40 bodies.

The car bomb exploded at noon near the Abu Tibeekh restaurant in Sadoun Street in central Baghdad. Many of the injured had serious burns and some were not expected to survive, police Lt. Ali Mohsen said at the Kindi Hospital.

Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and 10 more injured when a suicide car bomb slammed into a checkpoint in northeast Baghdad, police said.