Four people killed in Iraq's violence

Four people killed in Iraq's violence

Four people were killed and eight others injured Sunday in separate bomb and gunfire attacks in central and eastern Iraq, the police said.

Two soldiers were killed and three others injured when a roadside bomb struck their patrol in Abu Ghraib area, 20 km west of Baghdad, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

The blast destroyed one of the patrol's vehicles, the source said, adding that the Iraqi security forces sealed off the scene and carried out search operation in the area.

In a separate incident, two policemen and two civilians were wounded when a booby-trapped car went off near a police patrol in central the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, the source said.

In Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, gunmen opened fire on a house in the town of Bani Sa'ad, near the provincial capital city of Baquba, some 65 northeast of Baghdad, killing two brothers and wounding their mother, a source from the Diyala's operations command anonymously told Xinhua.

Also in the province, Iraqi security forces carried out search operations during the past 24 hours and arrested 14 suspects, including nine wanted individuals, the source added.

Violence is still common in the Iraqi cities despite the dramatic decrease since its peak in 2006 and 2007 when the country was engulfed in sectarian killings.

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BAGHDAD, Oct. 30 (Xinhua)