3 killed, 4 wounded in Iraq's violence

BAGHDAD, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Three people were killed and four wounded in separate bomb and gunfire attacks in eastern and western Iraq on Tuesday, a police source said.

In Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, a roadside bomb went off near a police patrol near the provincial capital city of Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, killing a policeman and wounding two passers-by, a provincial police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

In a separate incident, a civilian was killed and a policeman wounded when gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on them in a village 30 km northeast of Baquba, the source said.

Also in the province, a roadside bomb ripped through a residential area in south of Baquba, wounding a civilian, the source added.

In Iraq's western province of Anbar, gunmen shot dead a civilian in his 20's in the town of Khalidiya, some 80 km west of Baghdad, the gunmen had fled the scene, a local police source anonymously told Xinhua.

Sporadic attacks, including suicide bombings, are still common in the Iraqi cities since the U.S. troops pulled out of the country late last year.

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