Baghdad- Two blasts in Baghdad killed at least 16 people and wounded at least 43 more, in the most deadly of a series of attacks that rocked Iraq on Wednesday, the Dubai-based al-Arabiya satellite network reported.

The twin Baghdad blasts followed an attack in the northern city of Mosul, some 400 kilometres north of Baghdad.

In that attack, a suicide bomber drove a car loaded with explosives into a joint Iraqi-US military patrol, killing at least one Iraqi soldier, a police spokesman told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

And in the southern city of Iskandria, a bombing killed two policemen on patrol, the spokesman added.

In the northern city of Kirkuk, which both Arabs and Kurds covet for its rich oil reserves, a bomb apparently intended for a passing police patrol exploded in the Kirkuk Games neighborhood of the city. No one was killed in that attack, a police source told Baghdad's Voices of Iraq news agency. (dpa)