Attacks in Iraq Kill 7

VOA News 24 June 2010

At least seven people were killed in attacks on security forces across Iraq on Thursday.

The deadliest attack was at a police checkpoint in western Mosul, where a suicide bomber blew himself up and killed four police officers. Four policeman were wounded in that attack.

On the other side of the northern city of Mosul, two suicide bombers detonated their explosives near the main gate of an army base. One soldier was killed and five others were wounded.

In the capital, Baghdad, blasts from two roadside bombs

killed two police officers and wounded eight others. One attacker was stopped in Tal Afar, west of Mosul. Security forces shot him as he tried to detonate his car bomb near a public market.

Iraq has been hit by a wave of violence since the nation's parliamentary elections in March failed to yield a clear winner. Bomb attacks in recent days have killed more than 30 people.

Some officials fear insurgents may be taking advantage of the country's political deadlock to try to derail recent security gains.

Some information for this report was provided by AFP and Reuters.