Baghdad - Five people were killed and ten wounded in gunfire and bomb attacks in Baghdad and Iraq`s eastern province of Diyala on Thursday, the police said.In Diyala, gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms stormed a house in the town of al-Sa`diyah, 120 km northeast of Baghdad, and shot dead a man and his three sons, a source from the provincial operations command told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Iraqi security forces cordoned off the area and arrested two suspects, the source said.
In a separate incident, a roadside bomb went off near a passing minibus near Diyala`s capital city if Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, killing a civilian and wounding two others, the source added.
Also in Diyala, Lieutenant Colonel Tha`ir al-Obiedi, deputy chief of the provincial operations command, escaped with wounds an assassination attack when a sticky bomb attached to his car detonated in eastern Baquba, the source said.
Separately, two people were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded in Baquba`s northern neighborhood of al-Ameen, he added.
In Baghdad, two policemen and a civilian were wounded by a roadside bomb explosion near a police patrol in the neighborhood of al-Hurriyah in northern the capital, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Meanwhile, two more people were wounded by roadside bomb explosion in Baghdad`s southeastern neighborhood of al-Rustamiyah, the source said.
Violence and sporadic high-profile bomb attacks continue in the Iraqi cities despite the dramatic decrease of violence over the last three years.
source : antaranews.com
