Five civilians were wounded when a roadside bomb missed a police patrol in central Baghdad on Sunday, an Interior Ministry source said.
"A roadside bomb detonated around midday in the Uqba Bin Nafie Square in Baghdad's central neighborhood of Karradah, wounding five civilians," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The attack apparently targeted a passing police patrol but missed it, the source said, adding that several civilian cars were damaged in the explosion.
In separate incident, three mortar rounds struck a U.S. military base in the Rustamiyah area in southeastern the capital, according to the identical source.
It was not clear whether there was any casualty by the attack as the U.S. military did not confirm the incident yet, the source added.
Insurgents frequently attack the Iraqi security forces and the U.S. troops in Baghdad despite a more-than-five-month U.S. and Iraqi security plan aiming at putting rampant violence under control.
Source: Xinhua
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