Iraq Insurgents Kill Top Police, Hit U.S. Convoy [View All]

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KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen killed three high-ranking Iraqi police officers in two separate attacks on Saturday, among a daily round of bombings and ambushes targeting U.S. forces and their Iraqi allies.

A car bomb exploded in the center of the ethnically divided northern oil capital of Kirkuk, badly damaging a U.S. Humvee patrol vehicle and wounding two soldiers and an interpreter, the U.S. military said. The wounded were in a stable condition.

In southern Baghdad, gunmen assassinated a police brigadier and a colonel, a police source said, while west of Kirkuk near the town of Ash Sharqat a police colonel was one of two officers killed in an ambush. A second colonel, who reported the incident, was among three policemen wounded.

In a separate attack near Kirkuk, a policeman was wounded by a roadside bomb.

In the northern city of Mosul, where the Sunni Arab insurgency has been particularly active in the past month, a car bomb exploded near a U.S. military convoy wounding at least two passersby, witnesses and the U.S. army said.