Three people were killed and several others wounded in separate attacks in Iraq, police and hospital officials said Monday. Among the dead was a prominent local leader of Awakening Councils who was shot by two gunmen armed with silenced pistols. The attackers fled the scene after attacking Nael al-Azami near a popular cafe in Baghdad's northern Azamiyah district Monday morning. Elsewhere in the capital, a roadside bomb struck an Iraqi police patrol in the capital's Ghadir neighborhood, killing one policeman and wounding 10 bystanders and officers nearby. In Kirkuk, a policeman has died after a roadside bomb hit his patrol Sunday night. Four of his colleagues were seriously hurt in the blast. A series of other early morning blasts across Baghdad wounded 11, the Associated Press reported.
