A fresh spate of attacks across Baghdad left 26 injured, many of them policemen and soldiers, while four gunmen, two of them Egyptians, were killed north-west of the Iraqi capital, police said Thursday.
Nine members of a special police unit were injured by a bomb in the Palestine road area in east Baghdad while a bomb blast targeting the motorcade of a police general in Beirut square, also in east Baghdad, left six people injured, the Voices of Iraq cited police sources as saying, reported dpa.
In west Baghdad's Embassy road, six army personnel were injured by gunmen while a bomb targeting a security official in east Baghdad injured five.
The attacks come a day after six people were killed and 19 injured in a spate of bombings in Baghdad, including five fatalities in a blast on a minibus in the Shiite-dominated Kazimiyah district in east Baghdad.
In the north, Iraqi security forces backed by tribal police killed four gunmen, two of them Egyptians, near Tikrit, police said Thursday.
Police and members of a tribal force known as the Awakening Council raided a hideout of suspected terrorists in Ishaki, near Tikrit, 170 kilometres north of Baghdad, police sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
Four gunmen were killed in a shootout with police. Two of them had documents showing they are Egyptian nationals, according to police.
Earlier, a US military statement said members of the Awakening Council in Salahaddin province foiled an attack on Wednesday by suspected members of al-Qaeda in Iraq group.
Four al-Qaeda members were killed, three of whom were wearing explosive vests, a military statement said. dpa str sf bve