A spate of shootings and bombings across Iraq on Monday killed four people and wounded 13 others, police and military officials said.
In the deadliest attack, two sons of a mukhtar, or village chief, died when their car struck a roadside bomb in Buhruz, 60 kilometres (38 miles) north of Baghdad in Diyala province.
Another son of Mukhtar Abdullah Salman was wounded by the bomb, an official from the military operations command in the nearby provincial capital of Baquba said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Salman was not in the car, however.
Also in Buhruz, a separate roadside bomb wounded three civilians, the official said.
The two attacks sparked police to raid several houses in the village, leading to the arrest of 10 people.
In Baghdad, a convoy carrying police Major General Mohammed Sabri, who leads a company of officers in the restive northern city of Mosul, struck a roadside bomb, wounding one policeman but leaving Sabri unharmed.
One civilian was killed by a bomb in the central shopping district of Karrada and four others were injured, police said.
Also in Karrada, a bomb attached to the car of Iraq's federal police chief charged with diplomatic protection exploded, leaving him injured. Four civilians were also wounded in the attack.
Meanwhile in al-Kisik, 30 kilometres (18 miles) west of Mosul, gunmen killed a local building contractor in a drive-by shooting, according to a police official, who declined to be identified.
It was not immediately clear why the contractor was targeted.
Monday's violence comes a day after twin car bombs and an apparently coordinated suicide attack killed 19 people in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi.
Though attacks in Iraq as a whole have declined dramatically compared to last year, attacks in Mosul and Baghdad remain common.
Violent deaths in Iraq dropped by more than half in September compared with the previous month, official figures showed last week, with 203 people killed across the country.
September's death toll was the lowest since May, when a total of 155 people were killed.
Source: AFP Global Edition
