Three people were killed and 37 wounded in separate bomb attacks in Baghdad and Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk on Monday, the police said.

A car bomb detonated near an Iraqi army patrol in Taji area, some 20 km north of Baghdad, killed a civilian and wounded nine people, including five soldiers, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

In a separate incident, a civilian was killed and five people wounded when a bomb planted near a shop in al-Zaafaraniyah district in southeastern Baghdad, the source said.

Separately, a senior Iraqi official escaped unharmed a car bomb explosion near his convoy in Baghdad's western district of Mansour, wounding five passers-by and causing damages to one of the convoy' s vehicles, the source added.

Also in Baghdad, three people were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in Ghazaliyah district in western the capital, he said.

In northern Iraq, a motorcycle packed with explosives ripped through a parking lot in the Doumiz district in southern the city of Kirkuk, killing a civilian and wounding eight others, a local police source told Xinhua.

Meanwhile, a booby-trapped car detonated near a police patrol in al-Tiseen district in central Kirkuk, some 250 km north of Baghdad, wounding four policemen and three bystanders, the source said.

The attacks came as a series of bomb attack, including suicide bombings, rampant Iraqi cities since Monday morning, killing some 50 people and wounding 125 others.