Three civilians were killed and 10 wounded in a roadside bomb attack that was immediately followed by a car bomb blast in the Jadidah, a vast eastern neighbourhood of the Iraqi capital, the official told AFP.

In Baghdad's central commercial district of Karrada a roadside bomb killed one person and injured three, he said.

Meanwhile, in north Baghdad, one civilian was killed and another was wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a police checkpoint. -- AFP