BAGHDAD, Dec. 22 (Xinhua) -- Four people were wounded, including a member of a city hall, in separate bomb attacks in Iraq on Tuesday, police said.

    Hameed Abdul Hadi al-Erssan, member of Fallujah city council, was wounded when a bomb stuck to his car detonated in the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, a local police source said.

    In Baghdad, two people were wounded in the capital when a roadside bomb struck a civilian car near the Um al-Tubool intersection in southern Baghdad, the police said.

    In Salahudin province, a police officer was wounded when a bomb stuck to his car went off as he was driving near his home in northern Tikrit, the capital city of the province in north of Baghdad, a provincial police source said.

    Also in the province, Iraqi security forces detained four Iranians at a checkpoint in Tal Kseiba area near Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad, the source said.

    The Iranians were arrested for illegally entering the country, the source added.

    Sporadic attacks continue in Iraq as part of recent security deterioration which shaped a setback to the efforts of the Iraqi government to restore normalcy in the country ahead of the country's national polls next year.　

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