Baghdad: At least five people were killed and several others wounded when a series of bomb attacks mostly targeting security forces, including a suicide car bombing, hit different locations of Iraq, media reported on Sunday.
According to reports a police captain told media on condition of anonymity that two people, including an Iraqi army first lieutenant, were killed when a suicide car bomber attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint in Fallujah, west of Baghdad in Sunni Anbar province.
He said that six others, including four soldiers, were also wounded in the attack.
In Ramadi, the provincial capital of Anbar, a parked car bomb that detonated as a police patrol was passing wounded at least six people, including four policemen, a police major and a medic said.
Two people were also killed when a magnetic “sticky bomb” attached to their car detonated in Iskandiriyah, south of Baghdad, police said. A medical official in Mussayib general hospital, the nearest medical facility, confirmed the toll.
In another attack, a bomb blast outside a soldier’s house in the town of Himreen, in Diyala province, killed the soldier’s mother and left his sister wounded.
The casualties were confirmed by doctor Ahmed Ibrahim from the main hospital in Diyala’s provincial capital of Baquba.
In western Baghdad’s Mansur neighbourhood, a suicide bomber wounded four people, an official in the interior ministry said.
He added that policemen shot the suicide bomber before he reached a checkpoint, but the bomber managed to blow himself up.
Also in Baghdad’s district of Karrada, five people were wounded in two successive attacks by a sticky bomb and a roadside bomb, the interior ministry official said.
Violence across Iraq is down from its peaks in 2006 and 2007, but attacks remain common. A total of 126 Iraqis were killed in April, according to official figures.
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