By Xinhua
Baghdad : Nine people were killed and 15 wounded when a car bomb and two roadside bomb attacks rocked the Iraqi capital Sunday morning, the Interior Ministry said.
“Our latest report said that up to nine people were killed and some 30 others wounded in the car bombing,” a ministry official told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
In another incident, a roadside bomb went off near a US patrol in the Beirut Square in eastern Baghdad, the source added.
The US military had no immediate comment on the incident.
Earlier in the morning, two roadside bombs targeting an Iraqi Army convoy exploded near the College of Management and Economics in Baghdad’s northern neighbourhood of Waziriyah, killing one soldier and wounding six soldiers and two civilians.