By DPA
Baghdad : At least three people have been killed in separate attacks in Baghdad and northern Basra, media reports said Saturday.
A car bomb exploded Saturday in central Baghdad killing one civilian and wounding six others, the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) reported.
Other news reports claimed the blast caused the death of at least four people and the wounding of many more.
A police source who spoke on condition of anonymity told VOI "a car parked on the side of the road loaded with explosives detonated in A'qba Ibn-Nafie Square in central Baghdad Saturday morning."
The source said the area was sealed off and injured people were rushed to nearby hospitals.
Further details were not immediately available.
Meanwhile in Basra, a statement by the Multi-National Force (MNF) in southern Iraq said the MNF killed two gunmen in clashes in northern Basra Friday night.
"A British patrol came under attack with light weapons in the area of Karma. The British soldiers fired back, killing two gunmen," the spokesman for the MNF in southern Iraq said in a statement received by VOI Saturday.
There were no British casualties in the clashes that took place 15 km north of Basra, the source added.
The same source said, "all British camps in Basra came under indirect fire attacks during the past 24 hours but caused no casualties or damage."