Baghdad, Sep 9 (DPA) At least 15 people, including three policemen, were killed and nine injured in separate bomb attacks in Iraq Wednesday, according to witnesses and security sources.

Seven people were killed and two injured, from the same family, when a car bomb went off in Kirkuk, witnesses said. A woman and a child were among the dead. The car exploded while it was parked in the house's garage in al-Orouba district.

Earlier Wednesday, two policemen were killed and another three were injured when a bomb targeting their patrol exploded on the Kirkuk-Daquq road.

Oil-rich Kirkuk, home to Kurds, Turkmen, Christians and Arabs, lies 250 km north of Baghdad.

In the northern city of Mosul, an Iraqi army officer was killed and two civilians were wounded in a bomb blast, according to a security source.