Two suicide car bombings, along with a string of other attacks, in and around Baghdad Thursday have left 15 people dead, AP quoted police and army officials as saying. A suicide car bomber rammed into an Iraqi army checkpoint south of Baghdad, killing six soldiers in Mahmoudiyah, about 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of the capital. Thirteen other people, including five civilians, were injured, according to army Lt. Odai al-Zeiadi. A second Iraqi army checkpoint in the southern Baghdad suburb of Bueitha was also hit by a suicide car bomber, killing one soldier, al-Zeiadi said. Six other soldiers were injured, he said. Unidentified gunmen assassinated three members of the Qadisiyah provincial council as they were heading to an Internet cafe in the western neighborhood of Khadhra, said police 1st Lt. Mohammad Al-Hiyali. In Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City, an employee of the Ministry of Trade was killed in a drive-by shooting, said police 1st Lt. Talib Naim said. «Salman Lazim Shikara was heading to work when gunmen in a speeding car sprayed him with machine guns inside his car,» Naim said. Explosives were thrown into the compound of a British security firm in western Yarmouk neighborhood, killing one Iraqi guard and injuring two others, said police Maj. Falah Al-Mihamadawi. Witnesses said the armed attackers had driven up in a speeding car. --mor 1247 Local Time 0947 GMT
