BAGHDAD (AFP) - Five people were killed and 46 wounded, including women and children, in US airstrikes on the Baghdad stronghold of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr, medics said.
"We have received five dead, all men, and 46 wounded including nine children and 15 women," Dr Kassem Saddam of the Imam Ali hospital told AFP.
For its part the US military said four suspected insurgents were killed in the attack.
"Air assets engaged anti-Iraqi forces and positions in eastern Baghdad this morning," said the military in a statement.
"During early morning hours today, precision strikes on several positively identified targets destroyed four insurgent forces and several enemy positions."
The statement added that several explosions were heard in the area after the airstrikes, "destroying one civilian vehicle."
"We could not sleep all night from the airstrikes," said a resident of the Al-Orfali neighbourhood in the Sadr City district northeast of the centre. "There were powerful explosions all night long."
Another resident said the assault lasted "about three to four hours and we felt the whole house shake."
Separately, five mortar rounds were fired at the Iraqi police academy at around 8:30 am (0430 GMT) without causing casualties, said the interior ministry.
The US military also said that four mortar rounds were fired at a military forward operating base in eastern Baghdad, one of which landed inside the camp and three outside its perimeter.
It said there were no injuries or damage.
In Mosul two people were killed and five wounded Monday when a car bomb hit an Iraqi national guard patrol in the northern city, security and medical sources said.
"We have received two dead and five wounded," said Dr Mohammed Sadeq Abdulkarim from Mosul's Salam hospital.
"Two national guardsmen were killed and three wounded. The two other injured are civilians and include a woman," national guard commander Samir Salah told AFP.
He said the explosion took place at around 9:00 am (0500 GMT) in the Nabi Yunis neighbourhood.
Three people were killed in another car bomb attack in Mosul a week ago.
According to a recent report by the Iraqi government, Mosul harbours the second largest pocket in Iraq of militants loyal to Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, with an estimated 400 operatives.