Three people were killed and 14 others wounded in separate bomb and gunfire attacks in Iraq, the police said on Saturday.
In Baghdad, gunmen using silenced weapons shot dead Adil Cheichan, a cleric of a mosque in Baghdad's eastern neighborhood of Baladiyat, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
In Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, an 11-year-old female child and a man were wounded when a sticky bomb attached to a civilian car detonated in the town of Buhruz, near the provincial capital city of Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, a source from Diyala's operations command told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
In a separate incident, a teacher was wounded in gunmen attack on his house in the town of Abu Sayda, some 100 km northeast of Baghdad, the source said, adding that Iraqi security forces arrested two suspects for interrogation.
Also in the province, Iraqi security forces carried out search operations during the past 24 hours across Diyala's cities and arrested 11 people, including five wanted for terrorism charges, the source added.
In Iraq's western province of Anbar, a sticky bomb exploded in a civilian car carrying a policeman in the town of al-Saqlawiyah in north of the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, a local police source anonymously told Xinhua.
Earlier in the day, the police reported the killing of two people and the wounding of ten others around midnight on Friday when a bomb exploded at a liquor store in Baghdad's western district of Yarmouk.
The blast destroyed part of the store and caused damages to several nearby shops and civilian cars, the police said.
Gunmen frequently attacked liquor stores and some store owners blamed the attacks mainly on Muslim fundamentalists from al-Qaida or Shiite militias.
Violence and sporadic attacks are still common in the Iraqi cities despite the dramatic decrease of violence over the past few years.