A roadside bomb went off in central the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, killing a child and wounding three civilians, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
In a separate incident, three Iraqi soldiers were injured when a booby-trapped car struck their patrol while travelling on a main road in central Fallujah, the source said.
Three passers-by were also wounded by the attack, the source added.
Insurgent attacks continue in the once volatile Sunni Arab area in west of Baghdad that stretches through Anbar province to Iraq's western borders with Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Earlier in the day, a security source from Salahudin province in north of Baghdad reportedly said that a car bomb went off in the morning near a gas station in central the city of Shirqat, some 120 km north of the provincial capital city of Tikrit, killing a policeman and wounding 24 people including seven policemen.
Also in the morning, the source said that a roadside bomb struck a police vehicle near the city of Tuz-Khurmato, some 90 km east of Tikrit, killing a police officer and wounding another officer and a policeman.
Salahudin province is a Sunni-dominated province. Its capital city of Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad, is the hometown of the former President Saddam Hussein.
Violence and sporadic high-profile bomb attacks still common in the Iraqi cities despite the dramatic decrease in violence since its peak in 2006 and 2007 when the country was engulfed in sectarian killings.
from XINHUA
2012-06-17 22:43:59
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