Serial bombings target Iraq security forces, 15 killed

Baghdad: As many as 15 people were killed and 11 injured in a string of bombing and shooting incidents that mainly targeted security forces in Iraq, police said on Wednesday.In northern Iraq, a booby-trapped car struck a police patrol in Mosul city, some 400 km from Baghdad, killing four policemen and two passers-by and wounding another policeman, reported Xinhua citing a police source.[caption id="attachment_1019165" align="alignleft" width="380"] Security personnel in Iraq were targeted. AFP.[/caption]In a separate incident, a policeman shot dead two gunmen who were caught planting a roadside bomb in Mosul, the source said.In another incident, a child was killed and three policemen were injured in Mosul when a roadside bomb went off near a police patrol.Elsewhere, three policemen were killed and another was wounded in a roadside bomb near their patrol near the Duluiyah city, some 90 km from Baghdad, a police source said.In Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, a civilian was killed while six people were wounded in a bomb explosion late Tuesday outside a mosque, a police source said. In the morning, two civilians were killed in separate attacks by gunmen near Baquba city, some 65 km from Baghdad, the source added.In addition, bomb experts defused a car bomb loaded with about 200 kg of explosives on a main road used by security forces near Bani Saad town, some 20 km from Baquba, the source said.IANS