Baghdad, February 19: Iraqi security officials said 15 people were killed and 21 others wounded in a car bombing in the capital Baghdad on Sunday.
The car bomb attack was carried out at the entrance of the Baghdad police academy, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said.
Elsewhere, gunmen killed four people in an attack in the city of Baqouba, about 63 kilometers (40 miles) north of Baghdad on Sunday.
Gunmen also attacked a police checkpoint in the town of Abu Khamis, north of Baqouba, on Sunday. Three people were killed in the attack.
Police officials said two people were also injured in a roadside bombing near the city of Samarra, about 110 kilometers (70 miles), north of Baghdad on Sunday.
The Sunday attacks in Iraq were carried out a couple of weeks after at least 32 people were killed in a car bombing in the mainly Shia district of Zafaraniyeh in Baghdad on January 27.
—-Agencies