A civilian was killed and 11 wounded in separate bomb attacks in central and northern Iraq on Tuesday, the police said.
A sticky bomb detonated in a four-wheel drive vehicle carrying Salam Abdullah Ibrahim, managing director of the cement factory in Zaafaraniyah, killing him, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The incident occurred in the morning when Ibrahim was driving to work in Baghdad's southern district of Doura, the source said.
In a separate incident, Yassin Mostafa al-Janabi, member of Baghdad Provincial Council, escaped unharmed when a roadside bomb struck his convoy while moving in Baghdad's western district of Ameriyah, wounding a bodyguard and a passerby, the source added.
Also in Baghdad, a roadside bomb ripped through al-Shaab district in northern the capital and wounded two civilians, he said.
In Salahudin province, a roadside bomb went off near a car carrying Lieutenant Colonel Nadhim Hussien Nasir, chief of al- Shirqat police station, seriously wounding him, a provincial police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The blast took place as Nasir was driving to work outside the town of al-Shirqat, some 250 km north of Baghdad, the source said.
Separately, an explosive expert policeman was wounded while he was defusing a roadside bomb on a main road south of Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad, the source added.
Salahudin province, located in northern central of Iraq, is mainly Sunni province. Its capital city of Tikrit is the hometown of the former president Saddam Hussien.
In Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, four men and a woman were wounded in two roadside bombs and a sticky bomb attacks in and near the capital city of Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, a source from the provincial operations command told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Also in the province, Iraqi security forces conducted search operation in southern Baquba and arrested six suspects, including two wanted individuals, the source said.
The attacks are seen as part of wave of assassinations by insurgent groups and gangs against Iraqi security members, officials and civilians. The groups' tactics include suicide bombings, gunfire by silenced weapons and sticky bombs attached to vehicles.
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