- BAGHDAD: Officials say a suicide bomber has blown up his car outside a police checkpoint in northern Iraq, killing one policeman and injuring seven.
Police said the attack Thursday morning was in the city of Mosul, a former Al-Qaeda in Iraq stronghold 360 km northwest of Baghdad that is mostly populated by rival Sunnis and Kurds.
A Mosul morgue official confirmed the casualties.
In Baghdad, police said small bombs stuck on cars owned by ranking police officials killed one and wounded another.
An official at Yarmouk hospital confirmed both attacks.
All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.