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11 killed, 35 wounded in Iraq's violence

04 November 2013 20:04 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. A total of 11 people were killed and 35 others wounded in separate bombings and shootings in Iraq on Monday, police said, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

One of the attacks occurred in the morning when a car bomb went off while the convoy of Lieutenant Colonel Dawood al-Sahan, the chief of the police station, was leaving the gate of the station in eastern Shirqat, some 110 km north of the provincial capital city of Tikrit, the source told Xinhua.

Minutes later, two suicide bombers blew themselves up at the scene after being shot by the guards, the source said.

Al-Sahan escaped the bombings unharmed while 11 civilians and three policemen were wounded, the source added.

In a separate incident, a car bomb exploded at a police checkpoint outside the police academy in the southern entrance of Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad, wounding four civilians and three policemen, he said.

Elsewhere, the Iraqi police thwarted a coordinated attack around noon when two suicide bombers wearing explosive vests and disguised in army uniforms tried to break into a police station in the town of Riyadh, some 45 km west of the provincial capital city of Kirkuk, the source told Xinhua.

The guards of the station recognized the suicide bombers and opened fire on them, forcing the attackers to blow up themselves outside the station, the source said, adding that two policemen were killed and three others and three civilians wounded, the source said.

Meanwhile, unidentified gunmen shot dead three employees working for the Nineveh's provincial government and wounded another while they were waiting for their bus in al-Shurta district in northern the provincial capital city of Mosul, some 400 km north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, a provincial police source told Xinhua.

Another employee working for Nineveh's provincial government was gunned down by armed men in a separate attack near his house in eastern Mosul, the source said.

Gunmen entered a restaurant in eastern Mosul and shot dead Uof Abdul-Rahman, a judge of a local court, while he was having his lunch, the source added.

In addition, gunmen broke into a jeweller shop at a commercial area in central Mosul and shot dead the jeweller, he said.

Also in the province, a gunman was killed and four captured when they tried to attack an army checkpoint at a village located some 30 km south of Mosul, he added.

Near Baghdad, gunmen in a speeding car threw a hand grenade on an army checkpoint in Rashdiyah area, some 30 km north of Baghdad, killing two soldiers and wounding three others, a local police source anonymously told Xinhua.

Iraq is witnessing its worst eruption of violence in recent years. According to the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, almost 7, 000 Iraqis were killed and over 16,000 others injured from January to October this year.