AKI) - A Shia cleric was killed by unidentified gunmen in Baghdad on Monday, while several others were injured in a wave of bomb attacks that swept the Iraqi capital.Sheikh Jaber Fares Dhaher died after insurgents attacked his car in the southern Baghdad neighbourhood of Zafaraniyah, Interior Ministry sources said. His wife and daughter were also wounded in the attack.
A total of 17 were injured in bomb attacks targeting US and Iraqi forces in Baghdad, sources told the news agency Voices of Iraq.
Five people, including two policemen, were wounded by an improvised explosive device the Karrada district in the third bomb attack in the city in the past 24 hours.
Nine Iraqis, including three policemen, were injured by a mine targeting a military patrol in the western district of Yarmuk, while a similar attack in the Mansur neighbourhood injured five people, including three policemen.
On Sunday night, a suicide bomber killed 15 people including at least six US-backed Sunni Arab fighters, near a crowded outdoor market in east Baghdad.
Another 30 people were wounded in the attack near the historic Abu Hanifa Mosque in the Sunni district of Adhamiya and women and children were among the dead.