2 Killed, 8 Injured in Baghdad blasts

Two Iraqi soldiers have been killed and Eight others, including a civilian, were injured in three explosive charges blasts in different parts of Baghdad on Monday, according to a Baghdad security source. "An explosive charge, planted on the roadside in northern Baghdad's Abu-Ghuraib township, blew off against an Army patrol early on Monday, killing two soldiers and wounding six others," the security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. He added that a police officer, with a lieutenant rank, was injured in an explosive charge blast against his car on Sunday night in southeast Baghdad's "New Baghdad" district. "A Professor in the Islamic Sciences Collage of Baghdad University was injured in an explosive charge blast under his car, while passing through western Baghdad's al-Khadhraa district," the security source added. The Iraqi capital of Baghdad is witnessing a security deterioration in attacks against Iraqi Army, police officers, state employees and university professors by unknown armed men, using explosives and silencer-guns.