Baghdad bombs kill three, injure 16

Two near simultaneous explosions in north-eastern Baghdad today killed three people and wounded 16, a day after the defence ministry said security forces would expand a crackdown into the eastern parts of the capital, including Shiite militia strongholds.

A car bomb exploded in the residential neighbourhood of Waziriyah as a police patrol passed by, shortly before a roadside bomb detonated at the same site, said police Maj. Ahmed al-Obeidi.