At least three people were killed in roadside bomb attacks across Iraq on Tuesday after insurgents bombed the house of a Sunni MP in the northern city of Mosul in a separate attack, officials said. One man was killed and three were wounded when a bomb targeting an Iraqi Army patrol exploded in central Baghdad, a police source said.
A motorist was killed and three others were wounded when their car was blasted by a roadside bomb in Iskandariyya district, just south of the capital, police said.
In Mosul, the house of Sunni MP Hashem Yahiya al-Tai came under attack on Monday, his Iraqi Islamic Party said on Tuesday. Tai was in Baghdad when the attack took place, but several civilians were wounded when insurgents bombed his house, a statement from the party said.
"The security situation is getting worse in Nineveh" Province of which Mosul is the capital, it said. "After journalists, it is now parliamentarians who are being targeted," the party said, adding that Tai's house was badly damaged in the blast.
The Iraqi Islamic Party is the leading party in the National Concord Front, the main Sunni bloc which holds 40 seats in the 275-member Parliament.
Insurgents continue to launch sustained attacks in Mosul and the surrounding province of Nineveh. A number of attacks have also targeted Iraqi journalists in the city. Last week four members of a TV crew from the private Al-Sharqiyya channel were kidnapped and killed by gunmen in Mosul as they were filming a Ramadan show.
An American soldier was also killed on Tuesday, the US military said. "The soldier was killed as a result of a small-arms fire attack west of Salman Pak," just south of Baghdad, the military said in a statement without elaborating. 
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