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A car bomb exploded in an alley Saturday in a village in northern Iraq, killing at least four people, wounding others and destroying eight homes, police said. Another six people died in bombings in Baghdad.
Thirty-eight people were wounded and several shops and cars were also damaged in the 3 p.m. explosion in the northern village of Kugjeli, according to a police officer in Ninevah Province, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to journalists.
Most of the victims were inside their homes when the bomb exploded near the main street of the village, about five kilometers (three miles) east of the city of Mosul.
In the Baghdad attack, a bomb was placed at the gate of a billiards hall in the central district of Karrada. Four civilians died and 15 were injured, all of them youths in the hall, a police officer and a hospital medic said. Both spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
A bomb in the same area wounded four police on patrol.
In southwest Baghdad, a bomb planted on a car killed two people, including a junior Cabinet official, and injured 11 others, including the wife and child of the official, police and hospital officials said.
Violence remains at low levels in Iraq compared with previous years, but bombings continue to kill scores of people. The attacks have raised concerns as the U.S. military draws down troop numbers and Iraq prepares for parliamentary elections on Jan. 30.
U.S. combat troops in Iraq completed a withdrawal from urban areas to outlying bases at the end of last month, ahead of a planned pullout by all American forces by the end of 2011.
Separately, the U.S. military said an American soldier in Iraq shot and killed a truck driver, an Iraqi citizen, who "did not respond to warnings to stop on a highway" north of Baghdad.
An Iraqi police officer and a medic said the truck driver was taken to a hospital in Dujail, where he died of his wounds.
Such incidents were common in the early years of the war in Iraq, deepening hostility toward U.S. forces.
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Men carry the coffin of eleven year old Mohammed Akeel who was killed the day before, when a bomb exploded in the Kasra market in northern Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, July 10, 2009
AP
