Two roadside bomb attacks and gunfire during U.S. forces' raid in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday killed three people and wounded seven others, a well-informed police source said.
A roadside bomb went off in the morning at the entrance of a communication center in Baghdad's neighborhood of Zaiyounah, killing a civilian and wounding five others, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Separately, a U.S. force stormed a house in the same neighborhood, killing two people inside the house and detaining another, the source said.
The reason behind the U.S. raid was not clear yet, he said.
Another roadside bomb explosion struck a U.S. patrol near the Beirut Square on the Palestine Street in eastern Baghdad, wounding two civilians, the source added.
It was unknown whether the U.S. soldiers sustained any casualty as the troops immediately cordoned off the area preventing people and Iraqi police form approaching the scene, he said.
The U.S. military had no immediate word on both incidents concerning its troops activities in the capital.
Violence persists in Iraq as sectarian killings, suicide attacks, bombings and abductions claim dozens of Iraqi lives daily.
Source: Xinhua
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