Baghdad ( CNN ) -- At least 17 people were killed Thursday in bomb attacks in a city near Baghdad and the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk , police officials said . Police in Baghdad said 10 people were killed , including two women and three children , when insurgents placed bombs around a house in Musayyeb , a city about 43 miles ( 70 kilometers ) south of the capital . Two police officers , who were brothers , were among those killed in the explosion early Thursday , police said . The house was severely damaged . Later Thursday , armed men shot four civilians to death in western Baghdad 's al-Yarmouk neighborhood , police said . A fifth civilian died and another 18 were wounded when two bombs exploded in a coffee shop in al-Saydiya , on the south side of the capital . A roadside bomb wounded two people in Baghdad 's Abu Dasheer neighborhood Thursday evening , but no fatalities were immediately reported , according to police . Meanwhile , two civilians were killed and three others wounded when a motorcycle rigged with explosives detonated in a mixed neighborhood in southwestern Kirkuk on Thursday morning , police there said . The ethnically mixed , oil-rich city is about 150 miles ( 240 kilometers ) north of Baghdad . Since the beginning of the year , a wave of attacks in Iraq has killed about 200 people . The violence has raised concerns about the ability of Iraqi security forces to ensure order , particularly after the United States withdrew troops at the end of 2011 .
NEW : Another 10 killed in attacks around the Iraqi capital . Two women , three children , two police are among Two dead in a bombing south of Kirkuk . A motorcycle rigged with explosives kills Two civilians in northern city of Baghdad .