3 Iraqis killed, 22 injured in Baghdad violence

Three people were killed and 22 others injured Wednesday in separate bomb and gunfire attacks in Baghdad, an Iraqi Interior Ministry source told Xinhua. A roadside bomb struck a police patrol in Baghdad's western district of Eskan, killing two policemen and wounding five others and two passers-by, the source said on condition of anonymity. In a separate incident, a car bomb went off near the convoy of Brig. Gen. Sabah, commander of the Iraqi Army's 22th Brigade, in Baghdad's northwestern district of al-Hurriyah, killing a civilian and wounding 10 of Sabah's soldiers along with two bystanders, the source said. Sabah himself escaped the attack unharmed, the source said. In another district, al-Jihad, in the southwestern Baghdad, gunmen in a speedy car opened fire from their assault rifles on a police checkpoint, wounding two policemen, he said. Also in the capital, Ali Sa'doun Abboud, an Iraqi army brigadier general, was seriously wounded when a sticky bomb attached to his car detonated in the northern district of Sleikh, the source added. Earlier in the day, police reports said the Iraqi capital became the scene of bomb attacks which targeted the police stations across the city. A total of 14 people were killed and 59 others injured in these attacks. Violence and sporadic high profile attacks are still common in the Iraqi cities despite the dramatic decrease of violence over the past few years.