BAGHDAD, Iraq — Explosions killed two people in Baghdad and wounded seven today as Iraq's prime minister held meetings aimed at finding new defense and interior ministers.

Meanwhile, CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier was listed in critical but stable condition a day after a car bomb attack killed her two-man crew, a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi contractor. She was flown today to a U.S. military hospital in Germany.

Veteran CBS cameraman Paul Douglas, 48, and sound man James Brolan, 42, both Britons, died when a car bomb exploded as a U.S. convoy patrolled in central Baghdad — one of eight bombings to rock the capital Monday in the worst wave of violence in days.

Dozier, a 39-year-old American, had undergone two surgeries for injuries from the bombing, said Kelli Edwards, a CBS News spokeswoman. By early today, doctors had removed shrapnel from her head but said she had more serious injuries to her lower body, CBS News reported on its Web site.

In today's violence, a roadside bomb in southern Baghdad killed one police officer and wounded four. Elsewhere, police said a car loaded with mortar rounds and explosives exploded near the Interior Ministry, killing a man there and wounding three city workers on a soccer field, police Capt. Mohammed Abdul-Ghani said.

Police also found the bodies of three blindfolded and handcuffed men who had been tortured and shot in the head, apparent victims of the sectarian violence that has plagued Iraq since the February bombing of an important Shiite shrine.

Iraq's parliament debated the deteriorating security situation in the capital and some of its outlying provinces, but failed to set up a commission to deal with the problem because of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's inability to appoint defense and interior ministers.

Al-Maliki held a series of meetings with political leader today to find a way out of the impasse. More than a week after his unity government took office, Iraq's ethnic, sectarian and secular parties are struggling to agree on who should run the crucial ministries, which control the various Iraqi security forces.

The Shiite-dominated Interior Ministry, which controls the police forces, has been promised to that community. Sunni Arabs are to get the defense ministry, overseeing the army. It is hoped the balance will enable al-Maliki to move ahead with a plan for Iraqis to take on all security duties over the next 18 months.