Mahmoud Barakat
30 June 2016•Update: 30 June 2016
By Ibrahim Saleh
BAGHDAD
At least eight people, including a police officer, were killed and 22 others injured Wednesday in several blasts across the Iraqi capital Baghdad, a police officer said.
"A lieutenant police officer was killed when an improvised bomb that was previously planted in his car went off in al-Hurriya neighborhood," senior police official Colonel Hamed al-Mumen told Anadolu Agency.
Meanwhile, three people were killed and nine others injured when another improvised bomb went off near a market place in Abu Gharib district, 20 kilometers (around 13 miles) west of Baghdad, al-Mumen said.
He added that two separate explosions in the neighborhoods of al-Amin and al-Obeidi killed three people and injured another 13, while unknown assailants killed a person in the al-Baladiyat neighborhood.
No group has yet claimed responsibility for the incidents.
The attacks came two days after Interior Minister Mohammed Al-Ghabban announced Monday that a $120 million security system to protect Baghdad from car bombs would be installed at the entrances to the city.
*Anadolu Agency Correspondent Mahmoud Barakat contributed to this report from Ankara.
