Bombs in and around Baghdad killed at least nine people
on Saturday, police and medical sources said, highlighting security
challenges that include Islamist militancy and sectarian conflict.
There
was no immediate claim of responsibility but Islamic State militants,
who control large parts of the country’s north and west, frequently set
off bombs in the capital.
Five members of the
security forces and one civilian were killed in Tarmiya, 25 km north of
Baghdad, when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a security
checkpoint, the sources said.
A bomb in the
north-western district of Duwanim left two more dead and nine wounded,
while a blast in the Nahrawan area, south of the capital, killed one and
wounded six, the sources said.
Shot in the chest and head
Separately, police said they found the bodies of three men in northern Baghdad who had been shot in the chest and head.
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