By Xinhua
Baghdad : Two Iraqis were killed and 18 others injured in several bomb attacks which rocked the Iraqi capital on Wednesday morning, an Interior Ministry source said.
A roadside bomb went off in the Amin neighborhood in eastern Baghdad, killed two civilians and wounded ten others, including dustmen, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The blast, apparently, missed a U.S. patrol which has just passed the scene, the source said.
Three more roadside bombs went off near U.S. patrols in areas of Talbiyah, Shaab and Taji in northern Baghdad, the source said.
There was no word on casualties among the U.S. soldiers as the troops immediately cordoned off the areas, he said.
The U.S. military has not confirmed the attack on its patrols yet.
In a separate incident, five civilians were injured when a roadside bomb exploded at about 07:30 a.m. local time (0430 GMT) in Palestine Street in eastern Baghdad, he said.
Meanwhile, three civilians were wounded when three mortar rounds landed on Baghdad’s northern neighborhood of the al-Shaab, the source said.
Earlier, the source said that police patrols collected five unidentified bodies dumped in different parts of Baghdad during the past 24 hours.
Violence and blood shedding in Iraq has increased recently, despite the U.S. military’s claim of a 60 percent drop in attacks since last June.