10 killed, 22 wounded in attacks in Iraq

Ten people were killed and 22 wounded in separate shootings and bomb attacks in central and northern Iraq, police said on Saturday. Three policemen were killed when gunmen attacked their car in an area located east of the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The policemen were joining their base after their vacations when the gunmen surprised them, the source said. In a separate incident, a roadside bomb went off at a marketplace in Abu Ghraib area, some 20 km west of Baghdad, killing three people and wounding 11 others, the source added. In the meantime, a bomb detonated at a car repair shop in the town of Taji, some 20 km north of Baghdad, wounding five people, a local police source said. In northern Iraq, three policemen were killed and five wounding late on Friday night when a suicide bomber blew up his explosive- laden car into a police checkpoint on a main road near the town of al-Qaiyyara, south of the city of Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, a local police source anonymously told Xinhua. In the morning, a gunman was killed and another wounded when a roadside bomb detonated while they were trying to plant it on a road in northern Mosul, the source said. Violence is still common in Iraq despite a dramatic decrease since its peak in 2006 and 2007, when the country was engulfed in sectarian killings. Related: 14 killed, 32 wounded in bomb attacks in Iraq BAGHDAD, June 28 (Xinhua) -- At least 14 people were killed and 32 others wounded Friday in bomb attacks against a funeral and a checkpoint run by government-backed Sunni militiamen in Iraq, the police said. A suicide bomber driving an explosive-laden car tried to break into a funeral in Dujail, some 70 km north of Baghdad, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. Full story Related: 12 killed, 56 wounded in bomb attacks against cafes in Iraq BAGHDAD, June 27 (Xinhua) -- At least 12 people were killed and 56 others wounded in separate bomb attacks against cafes in Iraq on Thursday, the police said. The back-to-back bomb attacks struck a coffee shop in Baquba, capital of Diyala province in eastern Iraq, killing at least 10 people and wounding 30 others, a police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.Full story 2 provincial governors survives bomb attacks in Iraq BAGHDAD, June 26 (Xinhua) -- The governors of Salahudin and Nineveh provinces in north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad separately escaped bomb attacks unharmed, but five of their bodyguards were wounded, police said on Wednesday. A roadside bomb went off near the convoy of vehicles carrying Governor of Salahudin Ahmed Abdulla al-Jubouri to his office in the northern part of the provincial capital of Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad, a provincial police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.Full story