Six people died on Thursday in separate bombing attacks in Iraq, one of which targeted an official from the Iraqiya bloc of ex-prime minister Eyad Allawi, an interior ministry official said. In Jurf al-Nadaf, some 10 kilometres southeast of Baghdad, a bomb targeting the convoy of Iraqiya official Karim Mahud killed his bodyguard and three passers-by, and injured four other civilians.
According to AFP, two other people including a policeman died and one was hurt by magnetic bombs attached to their vehicles in the north and centre of the capital.
