A bombing targeted one Iraqi provincial elections candidate on Thursday, while another was kidnapped along with his father and other relatives, AFP quoted security and medical officials as saying.

A bombing targeted one Iraqi provincial elections candidate on Thursday, while another was kidnapped along with his father and other relatives, AFP quoted security and medical officials as saying.

A magnetic "sticky bomb" exploded on a car carrying Khaled Hussein Al-Daraji, a candidate in Salaheddin province, killing his driver and wounding three nearby workers, though Daraji escaped unharmed.

A tribal sheikh, Qais Abdul Karim Al-Janabi, was also kidnapped along with his son, Salaheddin provincial elections candidate Abdul Karim, and five other relatives in Siniyah, north of Baghdad.

A family member said phone contact with the relatives had been lost on Wednesday night.

In this context, five blasts hit the Iraqi capital Thursday noon, Al-Mayadeen reported, adding that the blasts targeted the entrance of the Ministry of Justice in Baghdad.