9 killed in Baghdad blasts

Baghdad: At least nine Iraqi civilians were killed in bombings across Baghdad on Sunday, police said.

A car bomb exploded near the Iranian embassy in downtown Salihiyah neighbourhood, killing three civilians and wounding three others.

Three people were also killed and four others wounded when a roadside bomb targeting police patrols exploded near a minibus in Baladiyat neighbourhood east of the capital.

A half-hour later, in the predominantly Sunni neighbourhood of Dora in southern Baghdad, a second roadside bomb targeting a US patrol killed three civilians.