Seven killed in Iraq attacks

Shootings and a bombing killed seven people in Iraq on Tuesday, security and medical officials said, bringing the number of people killed in violence this month to at least 69. Gunmen with silenced weapons shot dead a justice ministry worker in the Jamiyah area of Baghdad and killed an agriculture ministry employee in Adil, both in the west of the capital, according to an interior ministry official.
Two soldiers were also shot dead at a checkpoint in Baghdad Jadida in the capital's east, the official said. A medical official said four people were shot dead in Baghdad on Tuesday. In the village of Al-Qayara, south of the northern city of Mosul, gunmen killed police Colonel Abdel Monam al-Juburi, while others shot dead one person in eastern Mosul, police First Lieutenant Khaled al-Juburi and Dr Mahmud Zeidan of Mosul General Hospital said. In Baiji, 200 kilometres (120 miles) north of the capital, a motorcycle bomb killed one policeman and wounded four others, a police lieutenant colonel and a medical source said.