BAGHDAD - Two separate bomb blasts on Saturday killed two policemen and wounded four others plus a civilian in war-torn Iraq, police said. A policeman from a special task force was killed and two were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded in the mainly Shiite provincial capital of Hilla, south of Baghdad, police Lieutenant Kadhim Al Aaraji said. A civilian was also wounded. Aaraji said the bombers targeted Brigadier General Abbas Al Juburi, commander of the task force, as his convoy was passing in HillaÂ’s southern district of Ndir. The brigadier escaped the attack.
A similar blast targeting another police patrol in the main northern city of Mosul killed one policeman and wounded another, said police Brigadier General Abdel Karim Khalaf Al Juburi.