Three killed in separate incidents of violence across Iraq

Baghdad: Three people were killed and 12 wounded in separate incidents of violence in Iraq Tuesday, police said. A soldier was killed and three suffered injuries when a suicide bomber blew up himself among soldiers while they were carrying out search operation in houses in Tarmiyah town, some 30 km from Baghdad, reported Xinhua citing a police source. [caption id=“attachment_1239259” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Representational image. AP[/caption] In a separate incident, a truck bomb went off in Saiyd Gharib area, some 80 km from Baghdad, wounding eight civilians. In Diyala province, a leader of a government- backed paramilitary group was killed when gunmen attacked his car at a village near Edheim city, about 65 km from Baghdad, a police source said. In another incident, an employee working for the office of a lawmaker in Iraqi parliament was killed when a sticky bomb attached to his car detonated in Baladruz town, the source said. IANS