Eight people killed in Iraq bombings

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BAGHDAD (AFP) — At least eight people including a policeman were killed and 21 others injured on Tuesday in three separate attacks targeting Iraqi security forces in Baghdad and Mosul, police said.

In the troubled northern city of Mosul four people were killed and four others wounded when a suicide bomber tried to ram his explosives-laden car into a security checkpoint, a local police officer told AFP.

In Baghdad, two roadside bombs targeting police patrols killed four people and wounded 17, including women and children, during morning rush-hour.

In the first incident, an improvised explosive device detonated near Al-Kendi hospital in central Baghdad, killing a policeman and a civilian, police said.

Two women and two children were among the nine...