An Iraqi policeman was killed and two people were wounded when a roadside bomb went off near a police patrol in eastern Baghdad on Monday, a well-informed source said.

The attack took place in the Ghadier area in Baghdad al-Jadida neighborhood shortly before 10:00 a.m. (0700 GMT), the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

The blast damaged a police vehicle, killing a policeman a wounding another aboard, along with wounding a civilian, the source said.

Earlier, the police said that four cleaning workers of the Baghdad airport were killed and nine others wounded when gunmen opened fire at their minibus in western Baghdad.

The attacks came before an Iraqi court resume the genocide trial of six of former Iraqi officials in Baghdad without their codefendant Saddam Hussein who was hanged on Dec. 30, last year.

Source: Xinhua