A car bomb went off near an American army patrol north of Baghdad on Saturday, injuring several people, police and witnesses said.
Eyewitnesses told Reuters, a car parked on the side of the street in al-Aswad, a village just north of Baquoba, detonated as US troops were passing by. A policeman said two American vehicles were damaged and several troops injured.
Meanwhile, two attacks on Iraqi police south of Baghdad on Saturday left four dead, officers said.
Gunmen fired on a car carrying Col. Wisam Hussein, the police chief of Mahmoudiya, some 30 kilometers south of Baghdad, killing both him and his driver, police said, according to The AP.
Later Saturday, six assailants attacked a four-member police patrol in the town, killing one officer and injuring three others, one seriously, police officer Khaldoon al-Gurairi said. He said a 60-year-old bystander was also shot dead in the attack.
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