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In the deadliest attack on Thursday, a vehicle packed with explosives detonated near a police station in the town of Al-Gharma, just west of Baghdad in the Sunni Anbar province.
Four policemen were killed and six others wounded in the blast, according to Omar Belli, a doctor at the main hospital in the nearby town of Fallujah.
Belli said that another bomb explosion in Fallujah left seven people wounded, four of them police.
Meanwhile, a car bomb that exploded in the southern port city of Basra near a mosque on Thursday evening as worshippers were leaving which killed three people and injured 50 others, according to a doctor at the city's Al-Sadr hospital.
In the town of Al-Qaim on the Syrian border, a roadside bomb against a convoy carrying Iraqi army Major General Ismail Shahab killed a convoy driver and wounded two of Shahab's bodyguards, according to a military official who did not want to be named. It was unclear if Shahab was hurt.
In the capital, meanwhile, a magnetic "sticky bomb" attached to a car in the Al-Amriyah neighborhood of west Baghdad killed the vehicle's driver and wounded two others, an interior ministry official said.
A car bomb near Palestine Street in east Baghdad detonated as an army patrol was passing by, killing a civilian bystander and injuring 15 others, including 11 soldiers, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Gunmen attacked a police checkpoint in Hama, also in the capital's east, on Thursday, killing one policeman, while a roadside bomb in the central neighborhood of Allawi wounded five people, according to the official.
And in the main northern city of Mosul, an Iraqi soldier was killed by a bomb blast at an army checkpoint, said a military officer who did not want to be identified.
Violence is down across Iraq from its peak in 2006 and 2007, but attacks remain common. A total of 259 people were killed in violence in Iraq in July, according to official figures, the second-highest figure in 2011.
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Friends and relatives mourn as they carry the coffin of Ali Saleh, 25, during his funeral procession in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2011.
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