Nine dead in Iraq attacks

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. Two civilian contractors for the Iraqi army, both male cousins, were killed when their home west of Baghdad was targeted by dynamite. Three other family members, including a woman, were wounded, police and medical sources said. And in the capital's districts of Yarmuk and Dora, two people were killed and two others wounded by "sticky bombs".