A suicide bomber on Monday detonaed his car at a police checkpoint in Jalula, some 125 kilometers northeast of Baghdad, killing a child and injuring eight other people, an Iraqi police official said. According to the AP, the bombing in the capital took place shortly before 8 a.m. at the Rasheed market in the Dora neighborhood.
Elsewhere, a grenade thrown at an American patrol in the northern city of Mosul missed the soldiers but killed one Iraqi and injured 15 others, said an Iraqi official.
Meanwhile, officials said Monday Iraqi civilian deaths dropped sharply last month. At least 165 Iraqis killed in May, including 31 Iraqi security forces and 134 civilians, according to tally by Iraq's government. That figure compared to at least 355 reported killed by violence in April 2009.
