Special report: Tension escalates in Iraq

    BAGHDAD, Nov. 24 (Xinhua) -- Two people were killed and three others injured in south of Baghdad, while two policemen were wounded in a bomb attack, police said on Saturday.

    Unknown armed men opened fire on worshippers while leaving a mosque late on Friday in the city of Hilla, some 100 km south of the capital, killing two of them and injuring three others, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

    Separately, a roadside bomb detonated in the morning near a police patrol in the Park al-Sa'doon neighborhood in downtown Baghdad, damaging a police vehicle and wounding two policemen aboard, an Interior Ministry source said.

    Sporadic attacks continue in Baghdad and other Iraqi cities despite the relative lull of violence across the war-torn country, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials.