Iraqi officials say separate attacks have killed at least nine people in the country, AP reported. A police officer says militants snatched five soldiers from a taxi Sunday at a fake checkpoint near the northern city of Mosul and shot them dead. He added that gunmen killed a grocer inside Mosul. Another police officer said a bomb exploded near a car ferrying a judge in the northern town of Balad, killing three nurses walking nearby. The judge, his brother and the driver were wounded.
