By Xinhua
Baghdad : Three people were killed and seven injured in a roadside bomb explosion in southern Baghdad Thursday, an Interior Ministry source said.
The bomb went off as a minibus carrying passengers was driving by a fuel station in Za’faraniyah area, the source told Xinhua.
The blast damaged the minibus, killing three people and wounding seven others aboard, the source said.
Another bomb went off Thursday morning near an Iraqi Army patrol in Baghdad’s northeastern neighbourhood of Seliekh, the source said.
The explosion damaged a military vehicle, wounding a soldier and a civilian, he said.
Violence and sectarian strife claim lives of dozens of Iraqis daily in the war-torn country, particularly in Baghdad, since the invasion of US-led forces in 2003.