Six people, including two policemen and two soldiers, were killed in a car bombing south of Baghdad on Friday, an Iraqi interior ministry official said.
Security forces were attending to a bombing near a shop in the town of Yusufiyah, 25 kilometres (15 miles) outside the capital, when a nearby car bomb went off, killing two policemen, two soldiers and two civilians.
The attack, in which 21 other people were also wounded, occurred at around 5:00 pm (1400 GMT), the official said.
Yusufiyah is in a confessionally mixed region known as the Triangle of Death because of the frequency of insurgent attacks during the worst of Iraq's insurgency in the wake of the 2003 US-led invasion.
In the east Baghdad neighbourhood of Zayouna, meanwhile, a senior policeman was badly injured and his family were wounded by a magnetic "sticky bomb" affixed to his car, the official said.
The official revised earlier statements in which he said that Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Hassan had been killed in the bombing.
A medical official, who did not want to be named, at Al-Kindi hospital in central Baghdad, where Hassan was being treated, said both of the officer's legs had been blown off in the bombing, and added that he was in critical condition.
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