By Xinhua
Baghdad : A civilian was killed and nine others wounded in three bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital on Monday, an interior Ministry source said.
A KIA truck bomb parked near a mosque in the Shiite dominantly neighborhood of Shaab in northeastern Baghdad detonated in the morning, killing a civilian and wounding five others, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
In separate incident, a roadside bomb went off in the morning near the intersection of Adan neighborhood in northern the capital, wounding two people, the source said.
Also in northern Baghdad, a mortar round landed on the Muheet Street in the Kadhimiyah neighborhood, wounding two more people, he said.
U.S. and Iraqi officials said that violence around the country has dropped by about 60 percent in the past nine months, due mostly to an influx of thousands of U.S. troops, a ceasefire called by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and a decision by tens of thousands of Sunnis to join forces with the U.S. to fight al-Qaidain Iraq network.