Roadside bombs killed five Iraqi policemen and wounded eight others north of Baghdad on Sunday, an Iraqi official said. Three bombs planted along a main thoroughfare targeted a police convoy in Jalawla, 60 miles north of Baghdad, said Ibrahim Bajilan, head of the provincial council of Diyala.
On Saturday night, a bomb killed the leader of a U.S.-backed, Sunni armed group in a western district of Baghdad, the AP reported. The bomb went off in the car of Fuad Ali Hussein, killing him and his deputy and two bodyguards. Hussein's death was confirmed by a police officer and the head of another awakening council.
Meanwhile, the U.S. military said an American soldier in Iraq has died of causes unrelated to combat. The military said the cause of the death Sunday is under investigation.
Also on Sunday, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki formed a committee to investigate the killing of four employees of an Iraqi television station as they were filming an episode on the month of Ramadan. The four with the Al-Sharqiya station were kidnapped and killed Saturday in the northern city of Mosul. The dead included Mussab Mahmoud al-Azawi, head of the station's office in Mosul, two cameramen and a driver. Police said they were questioning two suspects.
Al-Maliki's office said in a statement that he had ordered provincial security forces in Mosul "to chase down the perpetrators and bring them to justice for punishment."
