Gunmen killed three members of Iraq's electoral committee on Monday while 15 people were injured in two separate bombs blasts in western Baghdad, security forces and witness said, according to dpa. The three officials were senior members of the committee that is preparing for provincial government elections in Iraq. The bus carrying them came under fire along a country road in Basra province, 550 kilometres south of Baghdad, the sources said. Meanwhile, a blast in western Baghdad's Ordon Square on Monday injured nine people, including three policemen, the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency quoted a source. The explosion also damaged several vehicles, the source told VOI. Hours earlier, three policemen and three civilians were injured in a blast in nearby Mansour, another source told the agency. The explosive had been set off remotely and targeted a police patrol, according to the source, who did not want to be named. The blasts came less than a day after a suicide bomb attack in Baghdad that targeted fighters aligned with Iraqi forces fighting al-Qaeda killed 12 in the north-west of the capital. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Monday condemned the attack in Adhamiya district in which a female bomber blew herself up at an awakening council checkpoint near the district's Abu Hanifa mosque. The deputy chief of Adhamiya's Awakening Councils Farouq al-Obaidi was among those killed. Thirty-two people were injured in the attack.
