Eight people were killed, including three policemen, and seven injured in separate bomb attacks in Iraq on Wednesday, according to local media reports. Four civilians were killed when an explosive device went off near their vehicle in southern city of Karbala, a government source said.
Security forces cordoned off the scene and began searching for those behind the attack, the source was quoted by Yaqen.net as saying. In the north, two policemen were killed and three policemen were injured when a bomb targeting their patrol exploded on the Kirkuk- Daquq road early Wednesday. The injured were transported to Kirkuk's general hospital.
Oil-rich Kirkuk, home to Kurds, Turkmen, Christians and Arabs, lies 250 kilometres north of the capital Baghdad. In the northern city of Mosul, an Iraqi army officer was killed and two civilians were wounded in a bomb blast, according to a security source.
The source told Aswat al-Iraq that the bomb had been stuck to the officer's vehicle and went off in the al-Majmouaa al-Thaqafiya region of Nineveh province located some 400 kilometres north of Baghdad. Separately, one civilian was killed and two injured in a bomb attack near the northern city of Khanaqin, according to a security source.
The bombing took place near a car in Imam Wes region in al-Saadiya district, south of Khanaqin, Aswat al-Iraq reported. Khanaqin is 155 kilometres north-east of Baaquba, the capital of Diyala province, 57 kilometres north of Baghdad.