Six people were killed, including an Iraqi counter-terrorism officer and two soldiers, and 13 wounded in a number of bombings and shootings in Iraq on Wednesday, officials said. One person was killed and six hurt when a bomb exploded in a sports shop in Baghdad's bustling Al-Rasheed street at about at 1:40 pm (1040 GMT) and caused extensive structural damage, said an interior ministry official.
Earlier Wednesday, General Arkan Ali Mohammed, a counter-terrorism officer, was killed when a bomb attached to his car exploded in Nisur Square in west Baghdad around 8:00 am (0500 GMT). And a civilian motorist was also killed by a bomb attached to his car in the capital's Mansur district.
Seven people, including a policeman, were wounded in the two incidents. In a fourth incident, Imam Ghazi Juburi, of the Rahman mosque in the north Baghdad district of Adhamiyah, was shot dead by armed men as he left morning prayers, the interior ministry official said.