By Xinhua
Baghdad : Three Iraqis were killed and 19 others wounded in two bomb attacks in Baghdad on Monday, a well-informed police source said.
“An explosive-charge detonated in a stall in a crowded marketplace near the University of Technology in eastern Baghdad, killing three people and wounding 16 others,” the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The blast damaged several nearby stalls and shops in the market, the source said.
In separate incident, two roadside bombs went off coordinately near a police patrol in the Jadriyah area in Baghdad central neighborhood of Karradah, wounding two policemen and a civilian, the source said.
A police vehicle was also damaged by the two blasts, he added.
Earlier in the day, a twin suicide bomb attack struck the Sunni endowment office in Baghdad’s neighborhood of Adhamiyah, killing up to 10 people and wounding 16 others, according to an Interior Ministry source.
Most of the victims were the neighborhood’s Awakening Council group members, who fight the al-Qaida in Iraq network, including their local leader Ryadh al-Samarie, the source said.
For his part, Brigadier Qasim Atta al-Moussawi, spokesman of the Baghdad security plan, said that six people were killed and 26others wounded.
Mousawi said that there was some evidences indicating that al-Qaida in Iraq network was behind the attack.