A civilian was killed and nine people were wounded in separate attacks in Iraq's volatile province of Diyala in northeast of Baghdad on Sunday, provincial police source said, Xinhua reported.
A civilian was killed and another injured when unknown gunmen opened fire on them in a rural area south of the town of Buhruz, some 50 km northeast of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Investigations is underway to disclose the reason behind the incident, the source said.
In separate incident, five policemen were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion near their patrol in southern the capital city of Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, he said.
The blast damaged a police vehicle and wounding five policemen aboard, he said.
Also in the day, a woman and two men were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion near their car on a main road in the town of Baladruz, 30 km east of Baquba, the source added.
Diyala province, which stretches from the eastern edges of Baghdad to the Iranian border east of the country, has long been a stronghold for al-Qaida militants and other insurgent groups since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 despite repeated U.S. and Iraqi military operations against them.