Three Iraqis killed, 37 wounded in Iraq's violence
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Xinhua, August 15, 2011
Three people were killed and 37 wounded in separate bomb attacks in Baghdad and Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk on Monday, the police said.
A car bomb detonated near an Iraqi army patrol in Taji area, some 20 km north of Baghdad, killed a civilian and wounded nine people, including five soldiers, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
In a separate incident, a civilian was killed and five people wounded when a bomb planted near a shop in al-Zaafaraniyah district in southeastern Baghdad, the source said.
Separately, a senior Iraqi official escaped unharmed a car bomb explosion near his convoy in Baghdad's western district of Mansour, wounding five passers-by and causing damages to one of the convoy' s vehicles, the source added.
Also in Baghdad, three people were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in Ghazaliyah district in western the capital, he said.
In northern Iraq, a motorcycle packed with explosives ripped through a parking lot in the Doumiz district in southern the city of Kirkuk, killing a civilian and wounding eight others, a local police source told Xinhua.
Meanwhile, a booby-trapped car detonated near a police patrol in al-Tiseen district in central Kirkuk, some 250 km north of Baghdad, wounding four policemen and three bystanders, the source said.
The attacks came as a series of bomb attack, including suicide bombings, rampant Iraqi cities since Monday morning, killing some 50 people and wounding 125 others.
