A car bombing targeting a Shiite funeral near a mosque killed four people and wounded 35 others in Iraq's southern city of Hilla late on Friday, a local police source said.

The bomb exploded among mourners heading to a funeral tent near a mosque in the evening, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Four people were killed and 35 wounded in the blast, the source said, adding the bombing is possibly triggered by a remote controller. Local reports on the casualties varied from three to 18 killed.

The blast also caused damage to some civilian vehicles and nearby buildings, the source said.

Hilla, some 100 km south of Baghdad, is a mainly Shiite city. Attacks on Shiite mosques and religious processions by Sunni insurgents were common during the mayhem in 2006 and 2007 when sectarian conflicts pushed the country to the brink of civil war.