Special report: Tension accelerates in Iraq

    BAGHDAD, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- A roadside bomb went off near a police commando patrol in a southern Baghdad district on Thursday, wounding four commando members, an Interior Ministry source said.

    The bomb detonated shortly before 4:00 p.m. (1200 GMT) in the Eilam neighborhood when a police commando patrol was passing by, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

    A police vehicle was damaged and four commando members aboard were wounded in the blast, the source said.

    Earlier in the day, up to 10 people were killed and some 32 others wounded when a roadside bomb went off in the busy commercial area of Shorjah in the capital. Enditem