Nineveh provincial police said the parked car bomb went off in Tal Afar, west of Mosul.

Eight members of a single family were killed Friday in an explosion near the Iraqi city of Nasiriya, a police source told CNN.

The unidentified source said the explosion in the suburbs of the southeastern city appeared to have been caused by a former military bomb found by one of the family's children, Alsumaria reports.

The U.S. military announced that two Marines died Thursday in a non-combat related incident near Karma in Anbar province. Nine U.S. troops have died in Iraq month -- two in combat and the others in vehicle accidents and other non-combat incidents.

Elsewhere, the Iraqi TV network said Mahmoud Younes, a leader in the Islamic Party, was killed Friday in Mosul. Younes and one of his guards were killed by unknown gunmen while near the Islamic official's home.

Meanwhile, Alsumaria reported a car bombing in the Ninevah Province killed three people and injured 11 others Friday. The bombing appeared to have targeted a police patrol, the network said.