Iraq: 10 people killed, 36 wounded in 4 bombings and a shooting

BAGHDAD (AFP) — Four bombings and a shooting killed 10 people and wounded 36 others in Iraq on Wednesday, security and medical officials said.

In the deadliest attack, a car bomb exploded at about 7:45 pm (1645 GMT) in a market in Al-Muqdadiyah, 90 kilometres (55 miles) northeast of Baghdad in Diyala province, and a roadside bomb detonated soon afterwards, killing a total of seven people and wounding 25 others, a police colonel and a doctor said.

Another car bomb exploded about 7:30 pm (1630 GMT) in Baquba, the capital of Diyala, killing two people and wounding nine, the police colonel and a doctor from Baquba General Hospital said.

In Mosul in north Iraq, gunmen armed with automatic weapons attacked a police checkpoint, killing one policeman, police First Lieutenant Mohammed Khalaf and Dr Mahmud Haddad said.

And in Dohuk, the capital of an eponymous province in the autonomous Kurdistan region of north Iraq, a magnetic "sticky bomb" wounded two civilians, according to Birendar Hamid Sharif, the head of the Dohuk police media office.

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