At least 10 people were killed and dozens injured over the weekend in attacks targeting security forces and government officials in Iraq, security sources said on Sunday. Salman Saheb Thamer, director-general of the ministry of electricity, was killed by gunmen while driving his car in Baghdad's al-Amin neighbourhood, according to a ministry statement.
In a separate incident, a member of Iraq's national intelligence agency was killed by a bomb that had been planted in his car in Salah el-Din, some 170 kilometres north of Baghdad.
Also Sunday, two people died and at least 20 were wounded when a suicide bomber in a wheelchair detonated his explosives-laden belt in a police station north of Baghdad.
A total of 11 policemen were wounded in the attack in Tarmiya town, a security source told the German Press Agency dpa. Earlier, two American soldiers were killed in northern Iraq, the US military said, making this month the deadliest for American personnel in more than two years. "Two US service members were killed today while conducting operations in northern Iraq," the military said in a statement.
Since June 1, 11 US soldiers have been killed in Iraq - making it the deadliest since May 2009. Sunday's deaths take the overall US death toll since the March 2003 invasion to 4,465, according to an AFP count based on the independent website, www.icasualties.org.
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