Baghdad - Bomb attacks killed five people in Iraq on Sunday, including three members of a family whose house was blown up north of the capital, security officials said.
“Unknown gunmen planted three bombs around a house made of mud and reeds in the Taji area, causing it to completely collapse and killing a father, mother and five-year-old boy,” an interior ministry official said.
The bombs exploded at around 4am, the official said on condition of anonymity, adding that a two-year-old girl survived but was wounded and taken to hospital.
In the northern city of Kirkuk, a car bomb killed the bodyguard of a local Kurdish security chief and wounded 11 other people, security spokesperson Fahad Ali Rashid said.
The attack took place near the university of Kirkuk and also wounded three professors and a student who were attending a conference on violence-related issues.
And west of Kirkuk, a roadside bomb killed the son of a local leader of the Sahwa, an anti-al-Qaeda militia, near Nawafel village, security officials said. - Sapa-AFP