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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Separate bombings in Baghdad around noon Saturday killed at least four people and wounded 21, according to an official with Iraq's Interior Ministry.
A roadside bomb targeting a police convoy killed two civilians and wounded six in eastern Baghdad's New Baghdad district, he said.
Five Iraqi police officers arrived and were wounded when a second bomb went off nearby, the official said.
Two members of an Awakening Council in northern Baghdad's Adhamiya district were killed and 10 others were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near their vehicles, the official said.
In a separate attack, gunmen opened fire on a checkpoint manned by members of an Awakening council in southern Baghdad, and wounded two of them, the Interior Ministry told CNN.
The attack happened in Baghdad's predominantly Sunni Dora district, once a stronghold of al Qaeda in Iraq.
The anti-al Qaeda Awakening Councils are predominantly Sunni and are sometimes composed of former militants. Many of them have been recruited by the U.S. military's "Concerned Local Citizen's Program" to work against al Qaeda in Iraq.
Earlier this month, a message from a member of al Qaeda in Iraq called Awakening Council members traitors and urged attacks on them. E-mail to a friend 
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