BAGHDAD - A SPATE of attacks in Baghdad on Sunday mainly targeting Iraq's national security forces killed four people, including two policemen, and wounded at least 11, security officials said.
Two policemen were killed by sniper fire in the western neighbourhood of Mansour, police told AFP, while two men manning a checkpoint in Baghdad's mainly Sunni quarter of Dora were killed in a drive-by shooting attack.
The guards were killed when unidentified attackers in a car fired on them as they sped past were both members of the Awakening movement, former Sunni rebels recruited by the US military to fight against Al-Qaeda.
The attack was the second in Dora in two days. On Friday, a car bomb blast at a crowded market killed 13 people and wounded 27, sparking clashes between insurgents and police.
In central Baghad's Palestine street, a major commercial thoroughfare, meanwhile, a roadside bomb wounded at least seven people, including two police, officials said.
A police patrol just north of Baghdad in Wasziriya was also targetted by a roadside bomb, which wounded three policeman and a civilian. -- AFP
