Baghdad, November 04: A senior Iraqi police officer has been killed after being hit by a bomb left outside the door of his house at Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad.
The victim identified as the deputy head of Abu Ghraib police, Colonel Shalal al-Zubay, was struck by the bomb as he left home to go to work, Iraqi police reported on Wednesday, adding that his wife and his daughter were also killed in the incident.
On Wednesday, several bombing attacks shook Baghdad and its nearby neighborhoods, leaving at least 20 people wounded.
Two soldiers and three civilians were injured when an explosive device attached to a car blew up near an army checkpoint in Baghdad’s northern neighborhood of Adhamiyah.
Interior Ministry said a bomb targeting a police patrol in the northern district of Qahira injured four people, including two police officers.
A blast at Iskan in the west of the capital also wounded seven people, while at Mahmudiyah, south of Baghdad, a bomb on the main road wounded four civilians.
Baghdad, located in the western province of al-Anbar, has been the scene of relentless terror attacks and violence since the US-led invasion in 2003, which overthrew Saddam Hussein.
—–Agencies