Special report: Tension escalates in Iraq     

    BAGHDAD, Sept. 13 (Xinhua) -- Three people were killed and a total of 13 others injured in three bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital on Saturday, an Interior Ministry source said.

    A roadside bomb struck a police commando patrol in the Camp Sarah neighborhood in southeastern Baghdad, killing a commando member and two civilians, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

    Two commando members and three civilians were wounded by the blast, the source said.

    Another roadside bomb detonated near a police patrol in the southern neighborhood of Doura, wounding four policemen and damaging a police vehicle, the source added.

    A third explosive charge planted in a civilian vehicle detonated near the Madinat al-Tib hospital in Baghdad downtown neighborhood of Bab al-Mu'dham, he said.

    Earlier in the day, a ministry source said that six Kurdish peshmerga (militia) fighters have been killed and two more injured by a roadside bomb attack near their vehicle in Diyala province.