In Dour, a roadside bomb went off by the house of the government-backed Sunni Sahwa militia leader for Jellam village and wounded two of his sons, police said. Jellam is south of Dour, a small town near Tikrit, 150 km (95 miles) north of Baghdad.

In the capital Baghdad as well, a roadside bomb went off near a police patrol late on Friday, wounding three people, including two policemen, in Baghdad's southwestern Jihad district, an Interior Ministry source said.

Another roadside bomb wounded two civilians late on Friday in Taji, 20 km (12 miles) north of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.