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Baghdad attacks leave 4 dead

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A rocket and two car bombs combined to kill at least four people and wound 13 in several sections of Baghdad Sunday, according to an Iraqi Interior Ministry official.

A Katyusha rocket slammed into a commercial road in a Shiite district in northern Baghdad, killing two children, the Interior Ministry official said.

A car bomb parked on a side street near a market in western Baghdad exploded, killing one person and wounded four others, the official said.

One person died and six were hurt when a car bomb exploded near the Sunni Khashab mosque in northwest Baghdad, the official said. Three car bombs blew up in the same Shiite area on Saturday.

Attacks on Saturday left at least 75 people dead and more than 100 wounded across Iraq.

Saturday's attacks followed the execution of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, a Sunni. Hussein was buried Sunday near his hometown of Tikrit. (Full story)

Some predicted the execution would exacerbate violence between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq. Sunnis were a minority ethnic group that enjoyed protection and power during the Hussein regime. They battle with the majority Shiites, who were persecuted then and now dominate the Iraqi government.

A U.S. soldier died earlier this week of wounds suffered in a roadside bombing in Iraq, the Pentagon reported Sunday, bringing the death toll among American troops there to 3,000.

Seven American civilian contractors of the military also have died in the conflict.

More than 22,000 other U.S. troops have been wounded in Iraq since the war began nearly four years ago.

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