Iraq attacks kill five

25 Oct, 2011

Attacks mainly targeting Iraqi traffic police across Baghdad on Monday killed at least four people, while a woman was shot dead in Mosul in Iraq's north, security and medical officials said. In the deadliest attack, gunmen opened fire on a traffic police patrol near the Al-Sarafiyah bridge in Waziriyah neighbourhood in the north of the capital on Monday morning.
Three people were killed and one wounded, according to an official at Medical City hospital. An interior ministry official put the toll at four killed and six wounded. In west Baghdad's Mansur district, a roadside bomb detonated near another traffic police patrol and when emergency responders arrived at the scene, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives vest, security officials said.

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