BAGHDAD, May 21 -- Fifteen people were wounded when a roadside bomb went off in a busy market in southeast of Baghdad on Sunday, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.

"Fifteen people were wounded when a homemade bomb detonated while our experts were defusing another bomb in an open market near the Samarai mosque in Baghdad al-Jadida neighborhood," the source said on condition of anonymity.

Many kiosks and shops were damaged in the blast, the source added.

Violence mounted in the war-torn country after three years of the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, despite the formation of a new government on Saturday. Enditem