Baghdad, Feb 25 (NNN-KUNA) Two bomb blasts in the Iraqi capital killed three people and wounded 12 others early on Sunday, a police source said.

The source said a booby-trapped car blew up on side of a road 100 meters from the fenced compound of the Iranian Embassy in the district of Karradah Mariam, killing two civilians and wounding five others.

The embassy building was not damaged with the blast.

In a simultaneous incident, a mini bus, laden with explosives, blew up in the crowded Shorja market in the center of the city, killing one civilian and wounding seven others. Several cars and stores were also damaged.

Upgrading casualty toll of a suicide bombing that occurred in the town of Habbaniya west of Baghdad on Saturday, police said 45 people were killed and 70 others were wounded. Most of the victims were worshippers in a nearby Sunni mosque.

Press reports indicated that the blast occurred after the mosque's imam strongly criticised the hard-line Al-Qaeda organisation.

Unofficial reports put the death toll of the continuing violence in Iraq, since 2003, at one million.