Eight killed in Iraq violence

Eight people were killed and 10 wounded on Wednesday in explosions and shootings near Baghdad and in northern Iraq, police said. In the deadliest attack, six people were killed and 10 others wounded when two bombs detonated in a popular cluster of restaurants in the town of Iskandiriyah, 50 kilometres (30 miles) south of the capital.
The two magnetic "sticky bombs" were affixed to cars parked in front of the restaurants and blew up at around 8:30 pm (1730 GMT), causing widespread damage as well as the casualties, a police officer said, on condition of anonymity. And in Mosul, two Iraqi soldiers were gunned down in separate shootings at military checkpoints in the restive northern city, 350 kilometres (220 miles) from the capital, police said.