A roadside bomb killed three policemen in Diyala province of central Iraq while a bomb inside a minibus in Baghdad left at least two people dead on Saturday, security and medical sources said. The roadside bomb exploded as a police patrol passed by in Khan Bani Saad, a town south of Baquba, the capital of Diyala, a police major said. Dr Ahmed Ibrahim of Baquba general hospital confirmed the toll, saying the hospital had received the bodies of three policemen.
A medical source at Ibn al-Nafis hospital said it had received two bodies and eight wounded people, including two women and a child, after a bomb blast on a minibus in the Karrada area of central Baghdad.