In central Baghdad's Karada district a policeman was killed and three others injured when their patrol was targeted by a bomb. — Photo by Reuters

BAGHDAD: A senior army officer and a policeman were killed and nine people injured by a series of attacks in Baghdad Tuesday, according to a source within Iraq's interior ministry.

Lieutenant-Colonel Yussef Mohammad, based in the defence ministry, was killed while driving on an expressway in the east of the capital by a magnetic bomb that had been placed under his car.

In central Baghdad's Karada district a policeman was killed and three others injured when their patrol was targeted by a bomb.

In Zafraniya, a southern district of Baghdad, three people, including two soldiers, were injured by a bomb placed at the side of a main road.

Elsewhere, in the eastern district of Sheikh Omar, three passers-by were injured by a device that exploded on the passing of a convoy carrying the finance ministry's administration director.

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