BAGHDAD (AFP) — A string of attacks in Iraq on Monday killed five people and injured at least 28, including two American soldiers blown up in a roadside bombing in the capital Baghdad, officials said.
The soldiers were killed when the bomb exploded at 9:30am (0630 GMT) next to their patrol in the central Baghdad district of Karada, the US military said.
An American soldier was also injured in the incident.
Another bomb planted in a Baghdad street Monday targetted an Iraqi army patrol, killing two people and wounding 15, security officials said.
The improvised explosive device (IED) went off as the patrol passed by on eastern Baghdad's Palestine Street, killing one soldier and one civilian, defence and interior ministry officials said.
Nine soldiers were among the injured.
The bombing marked the second day running explosives were planted on Palestine street, a busy commercial avenue which is also home to government office buildings.
In a separate incident in the city of six million, two policeman were injured in a blast in the Dura district, the defence ministry source said.
On Sunday, a series of bomb attacks in Iraqi capital killed 12 people and wounded at least 34, after a week-long lull.
Meanwhile, in the restive city of Mosul, 370 kilometres (230 miles) north of Baghdad, a bodyguard of the Kurdish deputy governor of Nineveh province was killed and six others wounded by a roadside bomb on Monday, police said.
Deputy governor Khasro Goran was not in the patrol at the time, a police official said.
In other violence, four people were injured when a bomb exploded inside a minibus near an important Shiite shrine in the holy city of Karbala, 110 kilometres (68 miles) south of Baghdad, a local health official said.
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