Nine Iraqis, including three Iraqi policemen and a man working as a translator for the American Army, were killed in separate attacks in Baghdad on Thursday, police officials said.
Accordinf to The AP, a car bomb went off near an Iraqi police patrol at about 7:45 a.m. in northern Baghdad as people headed to work, said police Lt. Haider Hussein. The car bomb targeted a police patrol, killing three officers; two other Iraqis were killed and 17 were injured, eyewitnesses said.
Separately, gunmen in a speeding car fired automatic weapons at a group of people walking to work in Baghdad's southern Risala neighborhood, killing four Iraqis, including a translator working for the American military, said police Lt. Hussam Noori.
