Bombings in Iraq, including one against an MP’s convoy, killed four people and wounded 18 on Wednesday, just days ahead of the country’s first elections since US occupation troops departed, officials said.

Bombings in Iraq, including one against an MP's convoy, killed four people and wounded 18 on Wednesday, just days ahead of the country's first elections since US occupation troops departed, officials said.

In the deadliest attack, a car bomb exploded near an army checkpoint in Abu Ghraib, west of the capital, killing two people and wounding six, while another car bomb in south Baghdad killed at least one person and wounded six, an interior ministry official and medical sources said.

In Ramadi, a magnetic "sticky bomb" killed a secondary school teacher, a police officer and a doctor said.

A roadside bomb targeted a convoy carrying an MP from the Iraqiya bloc in Madain, south of Baghdad, wounding four people but not the politician, while a "sticky bomb" wounded two people in Mansur in west Baghdad, the ministry official and medical sources said.