Attacks elsewhere in the country killed at least four
others.
Fallujah has been the scene of several recent battles
between security forces and suspected Sunni extremists. Two weeks ago, at least
seven civilians were killed in a shootout between militants and Iraqi and US
commandos during a failed attempt to capture a suspected leader of Al-Qaeda in
Iraq.
Police and hospital officials in Fallujah, about 65 km west
of Baghdad, said the dead in Sunday’s bombing included a police lieutenant
colonel. A policeman and two civilians were also injured, the officials said.
In Baghdad, militants killed a government worker in a
highway ambush and a Culture Ministry employee died of wounds in a separate
shooting in a string of attacks targeting public servants, police and hospital
officials said.
Another blast killed a passer-by and wounded seven others in
Baghdad’s mixed Sunni-Shiite Karradah neighborhood.
Officials said the bomb appeared to be targeting a police
patrol.
In the northern city of Mosul, gunman killed two brothers in
a drive-by shooting, police officials said. The motive for the attack was not
immediately known.
All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they
were not authorized to brief reporters.
In the Baghdad attack, police said the assailants flagged
down the car of an employee of Iraq’s Committee on Anti-Corruption as he was
driving on Baghdad’s airport road and shot him. A hospital official confirmed
the killing.
Nicknamed “Route Irish” by the US military, the highway runs
through several Sunni neighborhoods and was considered one of the world’s
deadliest roads as the insurgency took off in 2004.
Two other attacks in the capital also targeted public
employees.
An Electricity Ministry employee was wounded in separate
shootings, while two Cabinet aides were wounded in a car bombing, police said.
Iraqis have grown increasingly frustrated by the country’s
political deadlock that has Iraq without a government more than six months
after March elections failed to produce a clear winner.
Iraqi and US officials fear that insurgents are trying to
exploit the political vacuum in an attempt to re-ignite sectarian tensions.
There has also been a concerted campaign targeting security forces and public
servants in an apparent effort to undermine government institutions.
