Three Dead in Iraq Violence

Bombs and shootings in Iraq killed three people, including two policemen, and wounded nine others on Wednesday, security and medical officials said.

In the former insurgent bastion of Fallujah, in Anbar province west of Baghdad, gunmen on a motorcycle killed a policeman when they opened fire on a checkpoint in the center of the city, police Colonel Adil Mukhlaf said.

And just west of Fallujah, a roadside bomb detonated near a police patrol in the town of Khalidiyah, killing a policeman and wounding another, according to a police officer and a doctor.

Meanwhile, in the disputed ethnically mixed northern province of Kirkuk, a "sticky bomb" attached to a car killed one person and wounded another in the town of Hawija, police and a doctor said.

Bomb attacks in towns of mostly Sunni towns of Ramadi and Baquba, in western Anbar and central Diyala provinces, wounded seven people, according to police and medical officials.

Violence in Iraq has declined dramatically since its peak in 2006-2007, but attacks remain common, especially in Anbar and Diyala. A total of 132 Iraqis were killed in violence in May, according to official figures.