Six killed in Iraq violence

At least six people were killed and 19 injured in separate bombing and shooting incidents in different parts of Iraq Saturday, police said.

Three people were killed and 15 wounded when a car bomb ripped through Al-Qahira district in Baghdad, reported Xinhua citing an interior ministry source.

In a separate incident, gunmen shot dead a real estate office manager after storming into his office in Baghdad's Ghazaliyah district, the source said.

Meanwhile, a sticky bomb attached to a civilian car detonated while it was moving on a highway in the capital city's Doura district, leaving two people aboard injured, the source added.

In Iraq's Diyala province, a policeman was killed and another wounded in a roadside bomb near a police patrol in Abu Saida town, a police source said.

In Anbar province, a civilian was killed when a sticky bomb attached to his car went off in Al-Baghdadi town, some 200 km from Baghdad, while another person suffered injuries in an attack by gunmen in the provincial city of Ramadi, a police source said.

According to the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, almost 6, 000 Iraqis have been killed and over 14,000 injured in the country from January to September this year alone.