A spate of shootings and bombings targeting Iraqi security forces north of Baghdad killed at least six people and wounded several others on Monday, security and medical officials said. Among the dead were three policemen and two anti-Qaeda militiamen, after deadly bombings targeted Iraqi police the previous night, killing one policeman. On Monday morning, gunmen attacked a checkpoint in the centre of the town of Tuz Khurmatu, 175 kilometres (110 miles) north of Baghdad, killing two policemen before fleeing the scene, a security official in the town said. A doctor confirmed the toll. Also in Tuz Khurmatu, a car bomb at one of the main entrances to the town left nine people wounded, two local security officials said. In another gun attack, militants broke into the home of two brothers, both of them anti-Qaeda militiamen, in the desert region west of Samarra city, which lies around 110 kilometres (70 miles) north of Baghdad. They killed them and their father at around 4:00 am (0100 GMT), a police lieutenant colonel and a doctor in Samarra’s main hospital said.
