( CNN ) -- At least 19 people were killed in bombings in Baghdad on Saturday evening , police said . The deadliest blast was caused by a car bomb that exploded near a Western-style mall in the western Mansour district , killing at least six people . At least 13 other people died in six other incidents across the city , Iraq 's capital . At least 74 people were wounded in the Baghdad bombings -- six car bombs and one roadside bomb . Baghdad police officials said that gunmen broke out 23 prisoners from the Tobchi juvenile prison in Baghdad and that two police officers were killed and three wounded . But that report was contradicted by Labor Minister Nassar al-Rubaie , who said on state TV that no prisoners escaped . The Labor Department runs the juvenile prison . By around midnight , 13 of the 23 escapees had been captured in three neighborhoods of Baghdad , police officials there said . Earlier Saturday , at least one person was killed and 11 others were wounded when two explosive devices detonated in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk , the city 's police said . The attack targeted a marketplace in the southern part of the city , police said . Iraq has been engulfed in fighting and political instability in recent months . The United Nations said 2013 was the deadliest year in Iraq since 2008 , with almost 8,000 people killed , most of them civilians . On Wednesday , at least 61 people were killed and scores wounded in the latest wave of attacks in the Iraqi capital and across the country . Fears of all-out sectarian war have increased since violence broke out in Anbar province , where al Qaeda-backed militants and Iraq 's security forces have been battling for control of Falluja and Ramadi . The violence recalls the bloody fighting at the height of the Iraq war that nearly tore the country apart . On Saturday , Vice President Joe Biden talked with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki about U.S. support for Iraq 's fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria , a group that is trying to overthrow the Iraqi government . Biden 's office said the two leaders agreed on the importance of the Iraqi government 's continued outreach to local and tribal leaders in Anbar province .
NEW : 13 of 23 escapees from a juvenile prison have been captured , police say . The escape happened at the jail in the city of Chiclayo, about 100 miles south of Mexico City. One explosion in Baghdad went off near a mall . Earlier Saturday , an attack in Kirkuk targeted a marketplace .