Two bombs kill six in north Iraq, wound 29

Two bomb blasts killed six
people and wounded 29 others in northern Iraq on Sunday, police
said.
In Baghdad, gunmen killed a senior Interior Ministry
official, Brigadier-General Adel Abbas, along with his driver in
a drive-by shooting.
A suicide truck bomb killed three people and wounded 23 when
it exploded at a police checkpoint in the northern city of
Kirkuk, Brigadier-General Sarhat Qader, a local police chief,
told Reuters. Kirkuk is 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad.
Further south, a roadside bomb struck a minibus, killing
three occupants and wounding six others on a road near the town
of Jalawla in volatile Diyala province, police said.