Suicide bomber kills nine police in north Iraq

A suicide bomber killed nine Kurdish policemen in northern Iraq on Sunday, while five people died in other attacks, officials said. With the latest attacks, violence has killed more than 730 people in July and over 3,000 since the beginning of the year, according to AFP figures based on security and medical sources.
The suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle near a police convoy in the town of Tuz Khurmatu in Salaheddin province, also wounding nine officers, district official Shalal Abdul Baban told AFP. A doctor and police confirmed the toll.