Two suicide bombers have blown themselves up outside Baghdad's fortified government compound, killing one civilian and injuring six people, including another would-be bomber, an interior ministry official said.
Thursday morning's attack took place near a checkpoint controlling one of the entries into the Green Zone, which is also home to British and US diplomats. According to AFP, a first suicide attacker detonated a car bomb near one of the gates. A few seconds later, a second bomber walked up to the entrance of the Salhiyah police compound, adjacent to the Green Zone gate, and blew himself up.
The wounded included two policemen.
In other incident, two policemen died and four injured after gunmen opened fire on their convoy in west Baghdad. In the east of the capital, police said they had located the bodies of nine men late Wednesday bearing evidence of torture.
In northern Iraq, a soldier acting as escort was killed when gunmen opened fire on a minibus ferrying civilians to work at army headquarters in the oil centre of Kirkuk, police captain Firas Hamud said.
Three policemen also died and two wounded when gunmen fired on their car some 20 kilometres (12 miles) south of Kirkuk, he added.
