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General, five others killed in Iraq attacks
A senior Iraqi army general and five other people were killed and more than 20 people wounded in several bombings and gun attacks across the country on Wednesday, security officials said.
Brigadier General Mohammed Hamid Juwad, a member of the army's general staff, was killed by a "sticky bomb" placed under his car in the Saidiya district of southern Baghdad, said an interior ministry source.
In northern Iraq, twin roadside bombs targeting anti-Qaeda militiamen in a former insurgent stronghold killed three people and wounded 22, including seven militia fighters, police said.
A first bomb targeted a local leader of the Sahwa militia, known in the US army as the "Sons of Iraq," in the town of Sharqat, in Salaheddin province north of Baghdad, and the second exploded when a crowd gathered at the scene.