At least seven people were killed and four wounded in separate bomb and gunfire attacks in central and northern Iraq on Wednesday, the police said.
In the Iraqi capital, a joint police and army forces shot dead three gunmen carrying silenced weapons on a highway near Baghdad's western district of Ghazaliyah, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The security force spotted the gunmen and chased them on the highway after they attacked a civilian car of a government employee but failed to shoot him, the source said.
Near Baghdad, a police patrol found the bodies of three men kidnapped earlier at an orchard in Abu Ghraib area, some 20 km west of Baghdad, a local police source anonymously told Xinhua.
The three victims are two policemen and a brother of one of them. They were kidnapped late Tuesday night by gunmen who dragged them outside a house in Abu Ghraib area, the source said, adding that the bodies were carrying signs of torture and were shot in their heads and chests.
In north of Baghdad, a roadside bomb struck a police vehicle near the city of Samarra, some 120 km north of Baghdad, killing a police officer and wounding two policemen aboard, a local police source said.
In Iraq's northern province of Kirkuk, two policemen were wounded when a car bomb exploded near their police patrol in the town of al-Dibis near the provincial capital of Kirkuk, some 250 km north of Baghdad, a provincial police source anonymously told Xinhua.
Violence in Iraq has ebbed from its climax in 2006 and 2007, when sectarian conflicts pushed the country to the brink of a civil war, but tensions and sporadic shootings and bombings are still common across the country.
In the Iraqi capital, a joint police and army forces shot dead three gunmen carrying silenced weapons on a highway near Baghdad's western district of Ghazaliyah, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The security force spotted the gunmen and chased them on the highway after they attacked a civilian car of a government employee but failed to shoot him, the source said.
Near Baghdad, a police patrol found the bodies of three men kidnapped earlier at an orchard in Abu Ghraib area, some 20 km west of Baghdad, a local police source anonymously told Xinhua.
The three victims are two policemen and a brother of one of them. They were kidnapped late Tuesday night by gunmen who dragged them outside a house in Abu Ghraib area, the source said, adding that the bodies were carrying signs of torture and were shot in their heads and chests.
In north of Baghdad, a roadside bomb struck a police vehicle near the city of Samarra, some 120 km north of Baghdad, killing a police officer and wounding two policemen aboard, a local police source said.
In Iraq's northern province of Kirkuk, two policemen were wounded when a car bomb exploded near their police patrol in the town of al-Dibis near the provincial capital of Kirkuk, some 250 km north of Baghdad, a provincial police source anonymously told Xinhua.
Violence in Iraq has ebbed from its climax in 2006 and 2007, when sectarian conflicts pushed the country to the brink of a civil war, but tensions and sporadic shootings and bombings are still common across the country.
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