Baghdad  - Consecutive bomb blasts in a western-Baghdad residential area killed one person and wounded nine on Friday, an Iraqi police official said.

A bomb planted in front of a house in al-Jamaa district killed the owner of the house and wounded six people, the source told the Voice of Iraq (VOI) news agency.

A second blast injured three policemen who had rushed to the site.

No information about the perpetrators was immediately available. (dpa)