A civilian was killed and seven people wounded in separate bomb attacks in Baghdad and Iraq's eastern province of Diyala on Sunday, the police said.
In Diyala province, a sticky bomb attached to the car of Mohammed Sabah, a teacher, detonated in the morning and killed him, when he was driving in the west of the provincial capital city Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, a source from Diyala's operation command told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
In a separate incident, a six-year-old child was wounded when a roadside bomb detonated in front of his house in the al-Hadid area, some 10 km northwest of Baquba, the source said.
Also in the province, Iraqi security forces conducted search operations across the province during the past 24 hours and arrested seven suspects, including four wanted individuals, the source added.
In Baghdad, a roadside bomb explosion struck a civilian car in the southern district of Abu Dshier, wounding four people, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Another two people were wounded when a roadside bomb went off in Tarmiyah area, some 25 km north of Baghdad, the source said.
Violence and sporadic high-profile bomb attacks continue in the Iraqi cities despite the dramatic decrease of violence over the last three years.