Twelve people wounded in bomb attacks in Iraq's volatile Baquba

Twelve people were wounded, most of them Iraqi soldiers, in separate bomb attacks in the volatile Diyala province's capital of Baquba on Sunday, a source from the U.S. and Iraqi liaison office said

A roadside bomb went off near an Iraqi army patrol near the Maqdadiyah, some 40 km northeast of Baquba, wounding three soldiers, said the source from the Joint Coordination Center of Diyala.

Another roadside bomb detonated near an Iraqi army patrol in the Baquba's eastern suburb of Tahrir, wounding four soldiers, the source said.

Separately, a makeshift bomb went off near the Amin primary school in Baquba, wounding five people, including two children, and causing damages in nearby buildings, the source added.

Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, is the provincial capital of Iraq's Diyala province which is within Iraq's so-called the Sunni Triangle, an insurgent stronghold.

Source: Xinhua