Baghdad, Oct 31 (IANS) At least six people were killed and 18 wounded in separate attacks in central and eastern Iraq Wednesday, police said.
Three people were killed and seven wounded in a roadside bomb explosion at a vegetable wholesale market in Abu Ghraib area, some 25 km from Baghdad, reported Xinhua citing a police source.
In another incident, gunmen attacked a police commando patrol in Fallujah city, some 50 km from Baghdad, leaving an officer killed and two commandos wounded, a police source said.
In Baghdad, an anti-terrorism police officer was killed in a sticky bomb explosion in his car while he was driving in Baghdad's Adhamiyah district, a police officer said.
A soldier was killed and four were wounded in Diyala province when a roadside bomb detonated near their patrol near a village in Baquba city, some 65 km from Baghdad, a provincial police source said.
Three people were, meanwhile, wounded when a roadside bomb ripped through a popular marketplace in the town of Udhaim, some 60 km from Baquba, a source said.
In addition, a policeman and a civilian were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion near a police patrol just outside Udhaim, the source added.
According to the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, almost 6, 000 Iraqis have been killed and over 14,000 injured from January to September this year.
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