BAGHDAD, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- At least seven people were killed and four others injured Tuesday in separate gunfire and bomb attacks in central and northern Iraq, the police said.
In the Iraqi capital, two Iraqi soldiers were killed when gunmen using silenced weapons attacked their car in Naariya district in south eastern Baghdad, an interior ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
One of the victims was working as a guard at Ministers Presidency, the source said.
In a separate incident, Ahmed Tofiq, an employee of the Iraqi ministry of justice was gunned down in a drive-by shooting by armed men while driving on a highway in Baghdad's western district of Jamia, the source added.
In addition, Abdul Satar Balasm, an employee of agriculture ministry, was killed when gunmen using weapons fitted with silencers attacked his car in Amil district in southwestern Baghdad, he said.
In Iraq's northern central province of Salahudin, a motorcycle packed with explosives went off in the city of Baiji, some 200 km north of Baghdad, killing one civilian and wounding four others, a provincial police source anonymously told Xinhua.
In Mosul, 400 km north of Baghdad, two police officers were killed, one of them a colonel, in two separate attacks by automatic weapons, a provincial police source anonymously told Xinhua.
Violence is still common in the Iraqi cities despite its dramatic decrease since the 2006-2007 peak when the country was engulfed in sectarian killings.
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