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6 people killed in Iraq attacks

07 May 2013 17:40 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Six people were killed in shootings and bomb attacks in Iraq on Tuesday, the police said, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

In Iraq's northern province of Nineveh, Sanaa Abdulla, a female provincial council member, escaped unharmed a bomb explosion in the city of Mosul, some 400 km north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, a provincial police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Abdulla's driver was killed by the blast which occurred just after the councillor left her car in the garage of the provincial council in central the city, the source said.

In a separate incident, gunmen using weapons fitted with silencers broke into a car repair shop in Baiyaa district in the southern part of Baghdad and killed two workers before they fled the scene, an Interior Ministry source anonymously told Xinhua.

In Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, unidentified gunmen in their car shot dead a policeman and a civilian near a village in the city of Khalis near the provincial capital city of Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, a provincial police source told Xinhua.

Also in the province, a member of a government-backed paramilitary group, known as Awakening Council group, was shot dead and a woman was wounded by gunmen who attacked their house in a village near the city of Baquba, the source said.

The Awakening Council group, also known as Sons of Iraq, consists of armed groups, including some powerful anti-U.S. Sunni insurgent groups, who turned their rifles against the al-Qaida network after the latter exercised indiscriminate killings against both Shiite and Sunni Muslim communities.

Violence is still common in the Iraqi cities despite the dramatic decrease since its peak in 2006 and 2007 when the country was engulfed in sectarian killings.