A series of bombs destroyed two Shiite shrines near the volatile city of Baqouba late Saturday ¡ª the second time this year that sites sacred to Iraq's Shiite majority have been targeted.

An Iraqi soldier stands next to a shrapnel riddled electrical pole in Baghdad, Saturday, May 13, 2006. [AP]

In Baghdad, gunmen killed the son of Iraq's top judge as the country's prime minister-designate struggled to form a national unity government that could eventually open the way to stability.

On Sunday, three roadside bombs exploded one after another in Baghdad, killing six Iraqis and wounding 13, police said.

The worst attack missed a police patrol in Palestine street, one of the capital's main thoroughfares, but hit a civilian bus. Five people were killed, including a woman and two children, and a police officer was hurt, police said. A police officer killed in a roadside bomb in northern Baghdad.

Late Saturday, bombs hidden in a cemetery surrounding the Imam Jabir bin Ali al-Hadi shrine were set off by remote control, leveling the building, said Lt. Col. Falah al-Mohammedawi, a provincial police officer. The attack occurred in the town of Muqdadiyah, about 13 miles east of Baqouba.

Hours earlier, one or more bombs hidden inside the Tameem shrine exploded in a village about 3 miles west of the al-Hadi shrine, said Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, a U.S. military spokesman. Police said the blast destroyed about 80 percent of the building.

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