Iraq attacks kill six, including Brig
24 September, 2012
BAGHDAD: Attacks in Iraq on Sunday killed at least six people, among them a police brigadier general and two soldiers, security and medical officials said.
Gunmen using silenced weapons opened fire on a vehicle carrying police Brigadier General Nayef Abdul Razzaq, head of the interior ministry's complaints office, in the Al-Yarmuk area of west Baghdad, killing him and his driver, an interior ministry official said.
A medical source at Al-Yarmuk hospital said the facility received the body of the driver, while Razzaq died within minutes of arriving.
In Sadr City in north Baghdad, a magnetic "sticky bomb" attached to a minibus killed two people and wounded six, the interior ministry official said.
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