Four Killed in Attacks across Iraq

Attacks mainly targeting Iraqi security forces killed four people, among them three policemen, and wounded nine on Sunday, security and medical officials said.

So far this month attacks have killed 54 people, 41 of them members of the security forces, according to an Agence France Presse tally based on security and medical sources.

In the deadliest attack, gunmen shot dead three police at a checkpoint in a market in Mosul in north Iraq, police First Lieutenant Khalaf al-Juburi said, a toll confirmed by a doctor from Mosul General Hospital.

In Baghdad, a car bomb in the Qahira area targeted the convoy of Brigadier General Mohammed Ghazi, the head of the personal protection directorate in the interior ministry, wounding him, two guards and three civilians, a ministry official said.

A medical source at Al-Kindi hospital, meanwhile, said the facility had received one body and six wounded people, among them three police, including the brigadier general.

The interior ministry official and a medical source also said that a sticky bomb wounded a tribal leader in north Baghdad.

And gunmen attacked a checkpoint in southwest Salaheddin province, wounding two police, police and a medic said.

While violence has decreased compared to its peak in 2006 and 2007, attacks remain common across Iraq. There were attacks on 27 of the 31 days in July.

Official figures put the number of people killed in attacks in July at 325, the highest monthly death toll since August 2010.