Gunmen killed a local police chief and another officer early Friday in Iraq. Gunmen killed Balad Ruz police chief Col. Hatim Rashid as he was visiting a police station in the city, said Col. Mudhafar al-Jubouri, a provincial police official. A police officer was also killed and another was injured in the attack, 50 kilometers (30 miles) northeast of Baghdad. A bomb near a mosque in Kirkuk also killed one civilian heading to Friday prayers, said police official Sarhat Qadir. Three others were also injured.