Iraq attacks kill five

BAGHDAD: Shootings and bombings killed five people including a tribal chief and wounded 16 others in Iraq on Monday, security officials said.

Sheikh Rashid Zeidan, the leader of Al-Lihaib tribe, was killed by a roadside bomb that exploded as he drove in the Gayara district 60 kilometres (37.5 miles) south of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police First Lieutenant Mohammed Khalaf said.

Meanwhile, "two policemen were killed and three others wounded when gunmen attacked a checkpoint in Taji," north of Baghdad, an interior ministry official said on condition of anonymity.

And in the former insurgent bastion of Fallujah, three roadside bombs went off in Askari district, killing one civilian and wounding two others, a police lieutenant colonel said.

In Dujail in Salaheddin province, gunmen broke into a house and killed an old woman, whose son was also killed by gunmen last year, a police official said.

And a car bomb exploded near a police station in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, wounding five civilians, a police major said.

A roadside bomb wounded three people in Al-Amriyah in west Baghdad, the interior ministry official said.

And three Iraqi soldiers were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near their patrol north of the Diyala provincial capital of Baquba, an Iraqi army major said. (AFP)