Three injured in Baghdad blast
An Iraqi police officer uses a bomb detector at a checkpoint in the Iraqi capital, August 29, 2010.
Three people have been injured in a bombing in the Iraqi capital in the latest in a string of almost daily bomb attacks that mainly target the Iraqi police.
In the incident, which occurred on Saturday, an improvised explosive device (IED) was detonated near a police convoy in western Baghdad, the Aswat al-Iraq news agency quoted an unnamed security official as saying.
"Three, including two policemen, were injured when a roadside IED went off near a police patrol, close to the Ali Walie-Allah Mosque in the al-Jihad neighborhood in southwestern Baghdad," the source said.
The explosion damaged a police patrol and ripped through nearby houses, he added.
The blast comes a day after two bombings near a joint checkpoint of Iraqi policemen and a pro-government Sunni militia, known as the Sahwa (Awakening) forces, left seven people injured, including four civilians, in the north of the capital.
In a separate incident, two more Iraqi army soldiers were wounded in an IED blast that targeted an Iraqi army patrol near Sheikh Dari mosque in Baghdad's western area of Abu Ghraib.
And another bombing injured two Iraqi army personnel in a western neighborhood in the city Mosul, in the northern Nineveh province.
Violence picked up in Iraq in the aftermath of the country's inconclusive general elections of March 7, which left Iraq in a state of political limbo with major political parties yet to reach an agreement on forming a new government.
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