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Five people killed in spate of insurgents' attacks in Iraq - Nzweek

BAGHDAD, Oct. 15 — At least five people were killed and 29 wounded in a series of bomb and gunfire attacks in north of Baghdad on Monday, the police said.

Two policemen were killed when gunmen attacked their checkpoint in the city of Tuz Khurmato, some 170 km north of Baghdad, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

In a separate attack, gunmen stopped a car carrying two brothers affiliated to a government-backed Awakening Council paramilitary group in a desert area northwest of the city of Samarra, some 120 km north of Baghdad, and shot them dead, a police source from Samarra anonymously told Xinhua.

The Awakening Council group, also known as Sons of Iraq movement or Sahwa, consists of mostly anti-U.S. Sunni insurgent militant groups, who turned their rifles to fight al-Qaida network after Sahwa's leaders became dismayed by al-Qaida's brutality and religious zealotry in the country.

Separately, gunmen planted bombs in the house of a policeman and blew them up in the early hours of the day, wounding three of the policemen's family members, a local police source told Xinhua, adding the policeman himself escaped the attack unharmed.

In the Iraqi capital, gunmen using silenced weapons attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint in Baghdad's southern district of Doura, wounding three soldiers, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Also in the day, the police reportedly said that one person was killed and 18 wounded when two car bombs and a roadside bomb explosions went off near the provincial government compound in central the capital city of Kirkuk, some 250 km north of Baghdad.

Meanwhile, a third car bomb detonated near a court building in the city of al-Riyadh, some 35 km south of Kirkuk, wounding five people, according to Kirkuk police.

Violence and sporadic high-profile bomb attacks are still common in the Iraqi cities despite the dramatic decrease in violence since its peak in 2006 and 2007, when the country was engulfed in sectarian killings.

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