A bomb attached underneath the vehicle of a Baghdad police colonel blew up on Sunday, killing the officer and wounding two others, security and medical sources told AFP. Lieutenant Colonel Hamed Ibrahim died and two lieutenants in the car were wounded in the blast in western Mansur neighbourhood, they said. An official at Yarmuk hospital confirmed receiving the colonelÂ’s body.An AP report said the official, who it identified as Lt Col Muhammad Ibrahim, survived the attack but his driver was killed. Lt Col Ibrahim, director of IraqÂ’s police commandos, an elite special forces group, was heading to work when the bomb exploded around 10am in the Mansour neighbourhood, an officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to media. Ibrahim and his bodyguard both survived but his driver was killed, the officer said.
Meanwhile, a mortar round slammed into a street in a northeastern section of the capital, killing an Iraqi soldier on foot patrol, another police officer said. The attack occurred at 9am on Sunday in the Sulaikh area, police said. Three civilians and another soldier were also wounded in the attack, an officer said on the same anonymity condition.
South of Baghdad, an Iraqi policeman was killed in a drive-by shooting on Sunday near Kut, 160 kilometres southeast of the capital, police said. In Mosul, a roadside bomb targeting a US military vehicle wounded two Iraqi civilians, US and Iraqi officials said. No US troops were injured, and the incident was under investigation, said US military spokesman Lt Michael Street.