At least 10 people were killed and dozens injured over the weekend in attacks targeting security forces and government officials in Iraq, security sources said on Sunday. Salman Saheb Thamer, director-general of the ministry of electricity, was killed by gunmen while driving his car in Baghdad's Al-Amin neighborhood, according to a ministry statement. In a separate incident, a member of Iraq's national intelligence agency was killed by a bomb that had been planted in his car in Salah El-Din, some 170 kilometers north of Baghdad. Also Sunday, two people died and at least 20 were wounded when a suicide bomber in a wheelchair detonated his explosives-laden belt in a police station north of Baghdad. A total of 11 policemen were wounded in the attack in Tarmiya town, a security source told the German Press Agency dpa.
