A car bombing and gunfire attacks in the Iraqi capital on Tuesday killed five people and wounded nine others, an Interior Ministry source said.
"A car bomb struck a police patrol in the afternoon near the Karradah neighborhood in central Baghdad, killing four people and wounding seven others," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
A policeman was among the deaths and two others wounded, along with damaging two police vehicles, the source said.
Several nearby civilian cars and buildings were also damaged by the blast, he said.
In a separate incident, gunmen in two cars opened fire on a carcarrying employees of a government body tasked with purging former president Saddam Hussein's Baath Party members in Baghdad's northern neighborhood of al-Qahira, the source said.
The attack resulted in the killing of an employee and the injuring of two others, he added.
The attack came as the U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Baghdad with an aim of urging the Iraqi leaders to use the relative lull in violence to speed up national reconciliation.
Source: Xinhua
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