4 Killed, 14 Wounded in Iraq Attacks

Bomb and gun attacks across Iraq on Monday killed at least four people, including two policemen, and wounded 14 others, security officials said.

A car bomb blast outside a hospital in the city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, killed a policeman and a civilian, said police official Major Nuri al-Jumaili. Eight other people were wounded, five of them policemen.

In Haditha, also in western Iraq, a suicide bomber blew up his explosives-packed belt near the city council building, wounding two policemen, he said.

In Baghdad's Mansur neighborhood, a policeman was killed and two others wounded by an improvised bomb, an interior ministry official said.

Another suicide bomber in the Baab al-Muadham neighborhood of central Baghdad wounded two policemen guarding a bus station, the official said.

Meanwhile, gunmen with silencers killed a member of President Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in the northern province of Diyala, a security official said.

Last month was the deadliest this year for the number of Iraqis killed in attacks, according to government figures. It was the bloodiest since June 2008 for U.S. troops, who are due to withdraw by the end of this year.

A total of 271 Iraqis and 14 U.S. soldiers lost their lives in June.

Iraq has blamed al-Qaida for the increased death toll, which was up 34 percent on May. But the U.S. military holds Iranian-backed Shiite militias responsible for the deadly attacks on its troops.