Two Iraqi civilians were injured in a roadside bomb attack in an intersection of a neighborhood in southwestern Baghdad on Sunday, an Interior Ministry source said.
"A roadside bomb went off near a passing U.S. patrol in the al- Shariqa intersection in the Baya'a neighborhood in the afternoon, wounding two civilians," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
It was unclear whether the U.S. patrol sustains any casualty as the troops immediately cordoned off the area, preventing the Iraqi police from approaching the scene, he said.
The U.S. military has not confirmed the incident yet.
Separately, the death toll from the car bomb explosion in Baghdad's northern neighborhood of Kadhmiya on Sunday, rose to two killed and 13 wounded, the source said.
An earlier police report put the toll at two people were killed and eight others were wounded by the blast.
Also on Sunday, police said that at least eight people were killed and 25 others injured when a car bomb detonated in a busy parking lot in the Kirkuk city, some 250 km north of Baghdad.
Violence continues infesting Iraq despite the presence of tens of thousands of U.S. and Iraqi soldiers across the country in a major security crackdown on insurgency and sectarian violence.
Source: Xinhua
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