A car bomb near an Iraqi police patrol in southern Baghdad killed ten people today and wounded almost a dozen.
Earlier reports said only one person had been killed in the attack in the Dora neighbourhood of southwestern Baghdad.
The US military said the car, packed with about 300lb of explosives, blew up today as an Iraqi police patrol passed. All the dead were civilians, including a family of four travelling past in a car.
The blast comes a day after twin suicide bombings killed five people, including three Americans, in Baghdad's Green Zone on the eve of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan.
Earlier the US military said it was intensifying air and ground attacks on the insurgent-held city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad. The Iraqi interim government has urged the local population to hand over the wanted militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, or face invasion.
US military officials said operations were in progress in and around Fallujah.
However, they said it was not the start of an offensive to retake the town.
