(VOI) -- Five persons, including a policeman, were wounded in an explosive charge attack that ripped through downtown Baghdad, an Iraqi police source said on Monday. "An improvised explosive device (IED) went off near the concrete wall surrounding the shrine of Sheikh Abdelqadir al-Kilani in Bab al-Sheikh area, central Baghdad," the source, who preferred to remain unnamed, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). "The attack targeted an Iraqi police patrol vehicle and caused damage to two civilian vehicles were which close to the scene of the blast," the source noted. The wounded were taken to nearby hospitals for treatment, the same source said, adding that security forces sealed off the area immediately after the blast.