BAGHDAD (AFP) — A Shiite cleric was shot dead and 17 people, mostly Iraqi policemen, were injured in a wave of bombings in Baghdad on Monday, security sources said.
Sheikh Jaber Fares Dhaher was killed when insurgents attacked his car in the southern Baghdad neighbourhood of Zafaraniyah, interior ministry sources said. His wife and daughter were also wounded.
Three separate bomb attacks targeting US and Iraqi forces also wounded 17 people in Baghdad, the sources added.
Nine Iraqis, including three policemen, were injured by a mine targeting a military patrol in the western district of Yarmuk, while a similar attack in the Mansur neighbourhood injured five people, including three policemen.
Another explosive device wounded two policemen and an Iraqi civilian in the central district of Karrada.
Monday's rash of violence followed an attack Sunday night by a suicide bomber who blew himself up near a mosque in a Sunni Arab district of Baghdad, Adhamiyah, killing at least 15 people and wounding 30.
The dead included Faruq al-Obeidi, a local leader of a group fighting the Al-Qaeda network in Iraq.
The US military said it believes eight people were killed and 12 wounded in the incident.
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