Baghdad  - Five people, including four children, were killed in two separate bomb attacks in Iraq on Saturday, security sources reported.

One person was killed and 13 injured in a suicide bombing in near Kirkuk Police Academy im south-western Kirkuk city, General Ghazi Abdullah from Kirkuk police told dpa.

In a second incident in the predominantly Shiite province of Babel, a landmine was responsible for the deaths of four children who were playing football near al-Iskandriya district, a local security source told Voices of Iraq news agency. (dpa)