BAGHDAD, May 8 (Xinhua) -- A car bomb which targeted a police patrol in western Baghdad on Thursday killed four people and wounded eight others, an Interior Ministry source said.

    A booby-trapped car parked near the al-Samad restaurant in Mansour district, detonated in the afternoon near a passing police patrol, killing three policemen and wounding two others, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

    A civilian was also killed and six others injured by the powerful blast, which also damaged two police vehicles and several nearby civilian cars and shops, the source said.

    Earlier in the day, the police said that rocket and bomb attacks killed four people and wounded 17 others in different parts of the Iraqi capital.