BAGHDAD, Sept. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- A car bomb exploded in Iraq's northern Kurdish city of Arbil, causing one Iraqi killed and dozens of others wounded, the US military confirmed Wednesday.

　　The suspected car bomb blast went off at 9:05 pm (1705 GMT) Tuesday at a building in the city, a US military spokeswoman here said, adding the wounded included six US defense department personnel.

　　"So far there are 47 wounded Iraqis and one confirmed dead. There were six US DOD (department of defense) personnel who were injured," the spokeswoman said.

　　Earlier reports said that a car bomb set off near a checkpoint of the Kurdish Democratic Party (KDP) of Massoud Barzani in Arbil had killed and wounded a "large number" of people.

　　The bombing was the latest in a string of similar attacks acrossIraq in the last three weeks that have killed about 120 people, including the top UN envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and a revered Shiite Muslim cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Baqer Hakim. Enditem