Iraq bombings kill at least eight people

Baghdad, January 25: Three bomb blasts in Iraq have killed at least eight people and injured four others as the country gears up for parliamentary elections scheduled for March.

The deadliest attacks occurred in the troubled northern city of Mosul on Sunday, when a bomb blast targeting a passing police patrol killed four civilians and injured two others in the al-Tahrir neighborhood.

On the same day, another blast in the city killed two policemen, DPA reported.

In the western city of Fallujah, a bomb ripped through a police patrol on Sunday, killing two policemen and wounding another two, police said.

——-Agencies