(Updates toll, adds quote and colour) BAGHDAD, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Three car bombs killed at least 40 people and wounded 86 others when they exploded in quick succession in a Shi'ite area of central Baghdad on Saturday, a police source said. A witness said two of the explosions occurred in a vegetable market packed with women shopping in the Sadriya neighbourhood near the commercial heart of Baghdad. He said he saw many casualties in the area and thick black smoke rising from the wreckage. "The first explosion shook the area and a large piece of shrapnel landed near me. I saw people carrying bodies and dazed people running in all directions," said the witness who requested not be named. Insurgents often carry out bomb attacks on civilian crowds as part of a wider sectarian conflict raging in the country.
