Baghdad: Five people were killed and 18 others were wounded in separate bomb attacks, including a suicide car bombing in central Iraq, police said on Monday.
Three policemen were killed and 13 others were wounded late on Sunday night when a suicide car bomber struck a crowd of policemen gathered at the site of an earlier roadside bomb explosion in center of Ramadi city, the capital of Anbar province.
Insurgents frequently used a tactic of blowing up a bomb to attract security forces at the blast site and then carrying out a massive attack that would cause more casualties among them.
A roadside bomb Monday morning detonated outside the house of a senior official of the Iraqi industrial ministry in Baghdad’s southern district of Doura, killing one of his bodyguards and wounding three others/
In western Baghdad, a roadside bomb went off outside the house of an Awakening Council group member in Ameriyah district, killing him and causing damages to his house and nearby buildings, the source said.
The Awakening Council group, or al-Sahwa in Arabic, consists of paramilitary groups, including some powerful anti-US. Sunni insurgent groups, who turned their rifles against the al-Qaida network after the latter exercised indiscriminate killings against both Shiite and Sunni Muslim communities.
In a separate incident, another roadside bomb went off in front of the house of Razzaq Issah, the director general of the government-owned Iraqi Investments Board, wounding him and another person, the source added.
Issah was just leaving home and heading to work when the blast took place.
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