Baghdad: Three people were killed and seven wounded in separate attacks in central and eastern Iraq Saturday, Xinhua reported.

Two people were killed and two wounded when a roadside bomb ripped through a residential area in a town, located some 30 km from capital city of Baghdad, an interior ministry source said.

In Diyala province, a soldier was killed and three policemen injured when two roadside bombs went off simultaneously near a joint Iraqi army and police patrol, some 65 km from Baghdad, a source said.

In a separate incident, a roadside bomb detonated in a village near Baquba, wounding two people.