At least eight people were killed and 13 injured in separate incidents in various regions of Iraq Sunday, police said.
Three soldiers were killed and four others injured when a roadside bomb went off near a military vehicle at a village in al-Shora area near Mosul city, some 400 km north of here, reported Xinhua citing a police source.
An explosives expert was killed, while two policemen were wounded when an attempt to defuse an improvised explosive device went wrong at Hamam al-Alil town, some 25 km south of Mosul, the source said.
In Salahudin province, a roadside bomb went off near a judge's house in the provincial capital city of Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad, killing the judge and critically wounding his wife.
Two members of a family were killed and six people got injured when a mortar round struck a house in Abu Ghraib area, some 25 km west of Baghdad.
In Fallujah city, some 50 km west of Baghdad, a group of gunmen shot dead a policeman outside his house.