Baghdad, October 12 (RHC)-- At least eight people have been killed in a series of terrorist attacks around the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, police say. In the deadliest assault, which was carried out over the weekend in the eastern neighborhood of al-Shaab, three people lost their lives and seven others suffered injuries when a sticky bomb inside a microbus exploded.

A second bomb attack in Husseiniya, a suburb of northeastern Baghdad, took two lives. Nine people were also wounded in the roadside bomb attack near a crowded marketplace.

A separate roadside bombing killed two people in the southwestern neighborhood of Arab al-Jabour, while one person died in the al-Mohshahida neighborhood in a roadside bomb explosion that struck a military checkpoint.