Baghdad - At least four people have been killed and five wounded on Sunday in separate incidents in Iraq, police said. Clashes between gunmen and a police force in the district of Jabla in the city of Hilla, 100 kilomteres south of Baghdad, left at least three gunmen and a policeman dead.
Fierce fighting between gunmen and police have broken out early in the morning in which light weapons and mortar shells were used, police sources told Deutsche Presseagentur.
In another incident, five people have been injured, three of them Iraqi army personnel, by a minibus bomb north of the city of Baquba, 60 kilometres northeast of Baghdad.
A suicide bomber driving a minibus blew himself up near an Iraqi army checkpoint, police reported.
