Baghdad - An Iraqi soldier was killed Monday when a bomb went off inside his car in the northern Kurdish province of Salahaddin, while four civilians were killed and 
17, including a policeman, were wounded in a series of separate blasts across Baghdad, police sources said.

A bomb exploded inside the car of a soldier who was on his way to work in Tuzkhurmato district in Salahaddin province. The detonation killed the soldier, a police source told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency. The source did not give further details.

Separately, four civilians were wounded in a blast near the al- Nahda area in eastern Baghdad. Police cordoned off the area and moved the wounded to a nearby hospital, a police source told VOI.

That was the second bomb explosion of the day in Baghdad, after an explosive device earlier had killed three civilians and wounded five in the Amin district in the eastern part of Baghdad, VOI reported.

Additionally, a car bomb in the city center killed a civilian and wounded seven bystanders.

In Mosul, a policeman and a civilian were injured in a car bomb that exploded near a police checkpoint in al-Bursa district west of Mosul, a police source told VOI.

Meanwhile, US soldiers killed four suspected al-Qaeda terrorists in raids around the northern Iraqi cities of Mosul and Tikrit. In Baghdad, US forces shot and killed five people who attacked a street barricade.

Also, the US military said that an American soldier had died in a hospital in the United States from wounds sustained while fighting insurgents in Baquba on October 16. (dpa)