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Six killed, over a dozen injured in bomb and gun attacks across Iraq

Sunday, 27 January 2019 2:06 PM [ Last Update: Sunday, 27 January 2019 2:11 PM ]

The file photo shows mourners attending a funeral after a car bomb attack on October 23, 2018 killed six people at a market in the Iraqi town of Qayyarah, located 60 kilometers (40 miles) south of Mosul. (AFP)

Iraqi security officials and medical sources say at least six people have lost their lives and more than a dozen sustained injuries when separate bomb and gun attacks struck the country’s northern provinces of Salahuddin and Nineveh as well as the eastern province of Diyala.

Shirqat police chief colonel Majeed Ghatran said two policemen died and eight others were wounded when a bomb hit a bus transporting security forces on their way to work near the town, located some 300 kilometers (190 miles) north of the capital Baghdad, on Sunday.

He added that another bomb struck a second group of officers, who were heading to the location of the first explosion, killing two and wounding three.

Moreover, Police Lieutenant Abdelkadir al-Jabbouri said unidentified gunmen fatally shot an Iraqi man and his wife in the town of Shoura, south of Mosul.

Police Captain Habib al-Shimari also said militants had attacked a security checkpoint in Diyala, injuring five security personnel.

There were no immediate claims of responsibility for Sunday’s attacks, but such assaults bear the hallmark of those carried out by Daesh Takfiri terrorists.