Seven killed in shootings and bombings in Iraq

Baghdad: Shootings and bombings in Iraq killed seven people and wounded two others on Tuesday, security and medical officials said.

Two people were killed in the Bayaa area of Baghdad by gunmen who used guns with silencers, while another group of armed men killed a police officer in Fallujah, west of Baghdad, sources said.

In another attack in Baquba, north of Baghdad, gunmen killed Ali al-Obeidi, who ran in last month’s provincial elections with premier Nuri al-Maliki’s State of Law coalition.

Violence in Iraq has fallen from its peak at the height of the sectarian conflict in 2006 and 2007, but attacks remain common, and have killed more than 200 people in each of the first four months of this year.