At least 25 people were killed and 35 others wounded in attacks across Iraq Thursday, police said.
The deadliest attack occurred near Iraq's central province of Babil when a suicide bomber blew up his explosive-laden car at a police checkpoint just north of the provincial capital city of Hilla, leaving 10 people killed and 20 others wounded, Xinhua quoted a police source as saying.
Three police officers and five policemen were among the dead, the source added.
In Anbar province, two policemen were killed and three others injured in a roadside bomb attack near the city of Rutba.
Separately, four civilians were killed and six others wounded by mortar barrage on several neighbourhoods in the besieged city of Fallujah.
Also in the province, fierce clashes erupted between Iraqi army and gunmen near the town of Saqlawiyah, just north of Fallujah, killing two gunmen and wounding three others.
In southern Anbar, a roadside bomb struck a police convoy on a desert road, leaving two policemen killed and two officers wounded.
In a separate incident, three policemen were killed when gunmen detonated bombs in a polling center in the Mohammadi area, just west of the provincial capital city of Ramadi.
In northern Iraq, a gunman was killed during a clash with government forces south of the city of Mosul. A civilian was wounded in a separate roadside bomb attack, also south of the city, police said.
In Salahudin province, a taxi driver was killed when a sticky bomb attached to his car was detonated in the city of Siniyah, some 220 km north of Baghdad.
The attacks came just six days from Iraq's April 30 parliamentary elections, the first in the country since the withdrawal of US troops in late 2011.
