Baghdad - Eight people were killed and five wounded on Saturday in separate attacks in the Baquba, Kirkuk and Babel regions. Three members of the Awakening council were killed and three wounded Saturday in an armed attack near Baquba, the Voices of Iraq (VOI) agency reported, citing police sources.
The attack was launched by 15 gunmen believed to belong to the al-Qaeda network at a checkpoint in the Wajihiya district some 45 kilometres north-east of Baquba, the report said.
Awakening Councils, also known as tribal police, are Sunni tribe members who collaborated with US forces to fight al-Qaeda militants in Iraq.
Meanwhile two persons were wounded in a bomb explosion south of the northern city of Kirkuk, VOI reported. It said the bomb targeted a soldier's vehicle in the Touz Khormato district, some 80 kilometres south of Kirkuk.
Earlier, also in Kirkuk, one person was killed and 13 wounded in a suicide bombing in near the Kirkuk Police Academy in south-western Kirkuk city, General Ghazi Abdullah from Kirkuk police told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
In another incident in the predominantly Shiite province of Babel, a landmine was responsible for the deaths of four children who were playing football near al-Iskandriya district, a local security source told VOI.
