国际英语新闻：11 people killed, 29 wounded in Iraq's violence

In Baghdad, five people, including two soldiers, were wounded in the afternoon by roadside bomb attacks in western and southern the capital, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Earlier in the day, the ministry source said that a total of nine people were killed and 17 others were wounded in and near Baghdad on late Saturday and early Sunday.

He said a roadside bomb struck a police patrol near the Football Shaab Stadium in eastern Baghdad, killing two policemen and wounding another.

Late on Saturday, three people were killed and two others wounded when gunmen in a car opened fire at Sunni worshippers as they were leaving a mosque after the night prayers in the town of Jurf al-Sakhar, 60 km south of Baghdad, the source said.

Jurf al-Sakhar, is part of the once restive area, dubbed Triangle of Death, which is a cluster of towns scattered north of Hilla City, the capital of Babil province, some 100 km south of Baghdad.

In the morning, the source said that four people were killed in two bomb attacks in the capital, one of which was an explosion caused by a bomb planted in a mini-van carrying passengers while moving on the al-Qanat Street in eastern Baghdad in the morning, killing three people and wounding up to 11 others.

Also in the morning, the source said that three explosive charges detonated simultaneously outside a complex of colleges in Bab al-Mu'adham area in downtown Baghdad, killing a civilian and wounding three others.

Violence are still common in Iraqi cities as part of recent deterioration in security which shaped a setback to the efforts of the Iraqi government to restore normalcy in the country more than five months after violence-torn Iraq held parliamentary elections on March 7.