Four killed, nine wounded in Iraq attacks

BAGHDAD: Bomb and gun attacks killed four people and wounded nine others across Iraq on Sunday, security officials said.

In the deadliest attack, gunmen shot dead an employee of the national security ministry and his wife in Qadissiyah in western Baghdad, an interior ministry official said.

In Baquba, 60 kilometres (37.5 miles) north of Baghdad, one person was killed and six wounded, among them a woman and children, a security official said.

In the restive northern city of Mosul, gunmen killed a restaurant owner, while a passer-by was wounded when a mortar round hit a police station, police said. (AFP)