A suicide car bomber struck a police checkpoint in Baghdad, killing at least six people in the deadliest in a series of attacks on Wednesday that left 14 people dead in Iraq, officials said. According to AP, the suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into the police checkpoint in the capital's northern district of Kazimiyah, killing three policemen and three civilians, a police officer said. He added that 18 others were wounded in the attack. In the northern town of Tuz Khormato, a series of bomb blasts rocked residential areas, killing at least four civilians and wounding seven others, said Shalal Abdol, the mayor of the town, which is located about 200 kilometers (130 miles) north of Baghdad. Two other civilians were killed and three wounded in Baghdad's western suburb of Abu Ghraib when a bomb went off in a commercial area, a police officer said. Another civilian was killed and three wounded in the northeastern suburb of Husseiniyah, and a lawyer was shot dead while driving through the eastern New Baghdad neighborhood, police added. Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release information.
