Nine dead in Iraq attacks

BAGHDAD: Nine people were killed, including four policemen, from violence in and around Baghdad on Tuesday, security and hospital sources said.

Among those killed was a police colonel, while more than a dozen people were wounded in the attacks.

Two of the police victims were killed by an improvised bomb that targeted their patrol overnight south of Baghdad. The third was killed in the town of Fallujah west of the capital by a "sticky" bomb that attaches to cars.

Six policemen were wounded in the two attacks, a security source said.

A fourth policeman, Colonel Mustafa Said, was shot dead by gunmen using silencer pistols along the Mohammed al-Qassim highway in the centre of Baghdad, an interior ministry official said. (AFP)