BAGHDAD, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- One civilian was killed and 17 others injured in a car bomb and two bomb explosions in Baghdad, a well-informed police source said on Thursday.

    A car bomb which parked near a parking lot at the entrance of Baghdad's northern suburb of Taji detonated on Thursday morning, killing a civilian and wounding five others, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

    The blast destroyed several nearby vehicles, the source added.

    Separately, two explosive charges planted in two civilian cars detonated late on Wednesday on a thoroughfare in Baghdad's northern neighborhood of Adhamiyah, wounding a total of 12 people and damaging several nearby shops, the source added.

    Sporadic attacks continue in Baghdad as part of recent deterioration in security which shaped a setback to the efforts of the Iraqi government to restore normalcy in the capital after nearly two months of U.S. troops pullout of cities and towns.

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