Baghdad - At least three people were killed and 13 injured Saturday in bomb blasts in Baghdad and the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police told local media.

Police told Baghdad's Aswat al-Iraq news agency that three suspected insurgents were killed in the troubled northern city of Mosul on Saturday when their car blew up, apparently from a bomb that detonated early. No others were reported hurt by the blast.

Later in the day, two policemen on patrol in western Baghdad were injured by an improvised explosive device, police told the news agency.

In a separate attack, 11 people were injured when a makeshift bomb exploded in southern Baghdad, police told Aswat al-Iraq. - Sapa-dpa