A car bomb in central Baghdad on Sunday killed four people, including at least two policemen, and wounding 13 others. A police convoy was the target of the bombing and another policeman was among the wounded, AFP reported.
Sporadic gunfire followed the explosion.
Elsewhere, a roadside bomb struck a car being driven by a police officer, killing him and his four children Sunday in northern Iraq. Also In northern Iraq, a suicide car bomber rammed into a U.S. military convoy at 9:15 a.m. in Kirkuk, killing two civilians and injuring 13, a police officer was quoted as saying.
In Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, a drive-by shooting killed a police officer, authorities said.
Meanwhile, gunmen attacked a convoy of US contractors last month when they got lost in a town north of Baghdad, killing four and injuring two, the U.S. military confirmed on Sunday. It did not say why it had not reported the deaths earlier.
The Sept. 20 attack in town of Duluiyah, about 45 miles north of Baghdad, was reported for the first time on Saturday by the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph and confirmed by the military on Sunday. The convoy, which included U.S. military guards riding in Humvees, made a wrong turn into Duluiyah and gunmen attacked it, a US military spokesman told The Associated Press.
The Telegraph reported the contractors killed and wounded were employees of the Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root, the biggest U.S. military contractor in Iraq. The British newspaper added that two of the contractors not killed in the initial attack were dragged alive from their vehicle, which had been badly shot up. They were forced to kneel in the road before being killed. "Killing one of the men with a rifle round fired into the back of his head, they doused the other with petrol and set him alight," the paper reported.
The crowd then "dragged their corpses through the street, chanting anti-U.S. slogans," the report said.
