BAGHDAD, Aug 23 (AFP) - One Turkish national and five Iraqis were killed in a string of deadly roadside attacks across Iraq, US military and Iraqi police sources said Monday.
"Three workers, two Iraqi and one Turkish citizen, were killed when anti-Iraqi forces attacked them as they were travelling from their work to Kirkuk on August 22 at about 5:25 pm (1325 GMT)," a military spokesman said.
"The workers were from the Tikrit Bridge Construction Team repairing a bridge over the Tigris River. The Iraqi police are investigating the incident," he added.
Separately, a police officer was shot dead by an unknown assailant in the main southern city of Basra Monday, while further attacks in the north of the violence-ridden country left two other Iraqis dead.
An AFP correspondent saw a masked man walk up to a car at a petrol station in Basra and fire two bullets into the head of the policeman sitting behind the wheel. He tried to shoot a woman next to him but missed.
Police Lieutenant Amar Hamid confirmed the policeman died from two bullets in the head.
In the northern ethnically-divided city of Kirkuk, a member of one of the two main Kurdish parties -- the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan -- was also shot dead in his car Monday morning, police there said.
Colonel Sarhad Kader named the victim as Shezad Hussein Ali al-Jabari, 28, who he said had been on his way back from visiting relatives.
"There were three attackers and they escaped," Kader added.
In another incident, a Kurdish truck driver was killed and two others wounded on the road between Kirkuk and Tikrit when their convoy carrying concrete blocks used by coalition forces to protect their bases was attacked, the same source said.