A car bomb went off Wednesday in central Baquba city, the capital of Iraq's Diyala province northeast of Baghdad, killing five people and wounding 15 others, a provincial police source told Xinhua.
"A car bomb parked in a crowded area in downtown the city of Baquba detonated around midday, killing five civilians and wounding 15 others," the source from the provincial police operations office said on condition of anonymity.
Earlier, another car bomb went off in the city of Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, killing a civilian and wounding seven others, the police said.
Brigadier Muhammad al-Waggaa, deputy police chief of Nineveh province, where Mosul located, told Xinhua that the blast targeted a passing police patrol, but missed its target, causing civilian casualties instead.
A third car detonated in Kirkuk City, 250 km north of Baghdad, killing at least two people and wounding 10 others, the city police chief Brigadier Burhan Wasif told Xinhua.
The blast apparently targeted a convoy of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces, guarding a police chief, but also missed its target, Wasif said.
Source: Xinhua
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