Gunmen attacked a car southwest of the northern oil city of Kirkuk on Wednesday killing five people, an Egyptian and four foreigners, police said. The police said the gunmen attacked the car, that belongs to a government establishment, on the Tikrit-Kirkuk road, killing the Egyptian and the four other persons. Three people including an Iraqi woman were also wounded in the ambush. Violence in Iraq, over the past hours, claimed the lives of at least six people, and five dead bodies of unidentified persons were found in the capital, an official security source said. The source told KUNA that a bomb blew up in a public square in the district of Al-Mansour in western Baghdad targeting a police patrol. One civilian was killed and eight others including two policemen were wounded in the explosion.