Four people were killed and six others wounded in gunfire and bomb attacks in Baghdad and Iraq's eastern province of Diyala on Thursday, police said.
In Baghdad, a roadside bomb went off near a civilian car in al- Nidhal Street in Karradah district, killing a civilian and wounding three others, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Early in the morning, gunmen in a car opened fire from their assault rifles on an Iraqi army checkpoint in Abu Ghraib area, some 20 km west of Baghdad, killing two soldiers, an anonymous local police source told Xinhua.
In a separate incident, a policeman was wounded when a sticky bomb attached to his car detonated in Abu Ghraib area, the source said.
In Diyala province, a civilian was killed and another wounded in a roadside bomb explosion at a rural area near the town of Abu Sieda, in northeast of the provincial capital city of Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, a source from Diyala's operations command told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Separately, a civilian was wounded when gunmen opened fire on his home in eastern the town of al-Maqdadiyah, some 100 km northeast of Baghdad, the source said.
Also in the province, Iraqi security forces conducted search operations across the province during the past 24 hours and arrested seven wanted individuals, including five for terrorism charges, the source added.
Earlier in the day, the police reported the killing of at least 15 people and the wounding of some 60 others, many of whom were policemen, by a suicide car bomb attack on a police station in central the city of Hilla, the capital of Babil province, some 90 km south of Baghdad.
Violence and sporadic high-profile bomb attacks continue in the Iraqi cities despite the dramatic decrease of violence over the last three years.
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