An Iraqi soldier was killed and four people were wounded in gunfire and bomb attacks in Baghdad on Wednesday, an Interior Ministry source said.
Gunmen opened fire on Iraqi soldiers at a checkpoint at the entrance of a military base in Alawi district in central the capital, killing a soldier and wounding three others, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
In a separate incident, a sticky bomb attached to the car of an employee at the ministry of health, detonated in Baghdad's southern district of Doura, critically wounding him, the source said.
Violence and sporadic high-profile bomb attacks continue in the Iraqi cities despite the dramatic decrease of violence over the last three years.
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