Blasts rock Iraqi capital

12/01/2009| IslamWeb

At least five people have been killed and 15 others injured in a series of blasts in Baghdad.

A roadside bomb killed three civilians and left 10 people injured in the first of four separate attacks in the Iraqi capital on Monday.

The first blast was immediately followed by a car bomb explosion in Jadidah, an eastern neighborhood of the Iraqi capital, an interior ministry official said.

A third explosion occurred in Baghdad's central commercial district of Karrada where one person was killed.

Another blast targeted a police checkpoint, killing at least one person.

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An Iraqi police officer lies on the ground after he was wounded in a bomb attack in central Baghdad January 12, 2009.

Al-Jazeera