Baghdad  - At least 10 people were killed and another 12 were injured on Monday in two bombings in Baghdad and a shooting in Mosul

Two policemen were killed and six other people were wounded in an explosion in downtown Baghdad, the second to hit the capital on Monday, Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency reported, citing police sources.

VOI said the bomb went off near Kahramana Square in central Baghdad.

It was the second bombing of the day, after a suicide bomber killed himself and four others, the news agency reported.

The bomber triggered a bomb attached to a car in the middle of a group of civilians at the entrance to a market in the New Baghdad district.

At least six people were wounded in that blast.

In Mosul, unknown gunmen killed a high-ranking Iraqi police official and two of his guards. Mosul is located some 400 kilometres north of Baghdad. dpa