6 people killed in Iraq's bombings

Six people were killed and two wounded Saturday in separate bomb attacks in northern and central Iraq, police said. Four people from one family were killed when a roadside bomb struck their car near the city of Hawijah, some 220 km north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. In a separate incident, a roadside bomb went off near a police patrol in the northern part of Salahudin's provincial capital of Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad, killing a policeman and wounding two, including a police officer, a provincial police source anonymously told Xinhua. In addition, a group of unidentified gunmen shot dead a civilian in central the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, a local police source said. Violent attacks are still common in Iraq despite the dramatic decrease in violence since its peak in 2006 and 2007, when the country was engulfed in sectarian killings.