By Xinhua,
Baghdad : A total of 14 people were wounded in roadside bomb attacks in Baghdad on Monday, an Interior Ministry source said.
A roadside bomb detonated in a parking lot near a police station in Baghdad’s northern neighborhood of Sha’ab, wounding nine people, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The blast destroyed a minibus and caused damages to several nearby civilian cars, the source said.
A second roadside bomb went off in another parking lot near the Abbas Ibn Firnas statue on the highway leading to Baghdad international airport in southwestern the capital, wounding five people, he said.
A third roadside bomb struck a U.S. patrol in the al-Qanat Street near Baghdad’s eastern neighborhood of Sadr City, leaving a Humvee on fire, he said.
The source could not say whether the U.S. soldiers sustained casualties as the troops immediately cordoned off the area.
The U.S. military did not confirm the incident yet.
Sporadic attacks continue in Baghdad despite the U.S. and Iraqi officials’ announcement of a relative lull in violence during the past few months.