BAGHDAD - A police chief was gunned down near his home in south-central Iraq Friday, said the Polish military, which is deployed in the region, while one person was killed and three wounded in a car bomb in Baquba.
Another car bomb exploded in the northern restive city of Mosul in the path of a US convoy. There was no immediate word on casualties.
"Today in the morning hours, Al-Budair police chief Colonel Ghaib Hadab Zarib was killed," a military statement said. "His body was found near his house. The unknown attackers shot at him using an AK-rifle."
Al-Budair is 45 kilometres (35 miles) east of Diwaniyah.
The slaying is the latest in a crippling and relentless campaign of attacks targeting the country's nascent security forces.
In other violence, an Iraqi civilian was killed and three wounded when a car bomb parked on the street in Baquba, 60 kilometres (37 miles) northeast of Baghdad, exploded at about 3:00 pm (1200 GMT), said a police source.
This comes a day after a car bomb exploded near a police station in the city killing one person and wounding 18.
In Mosul, a car bomb parked on the side of a freeway was detonated when a US military convoy passed by at about noon (0900 GMT), said witnesses.
"I saw people come and park the car and then they got into an Opel that was waiting and sped away," said Mohammed Jassim Abdullah, a guard at a nearby riverside park.
There was no immediate comment from the US military on any casualties among its forces.
The explosion left a big hole on the road's shoulder, and remains of the vehicle were strewn everywhere, an AFP correspondent at the scene reported.
In Baghdad, a series of explosions that appeared to be a mortar attack rocked the northern side of the city at around midday and the bridge connecting the Sunni Adhamiyah district with Shiite Khadimiyah on the east bank was blocked with rocks.
A US military spokesman had no information on the cause.
Iraqi soldiers from the 40th Brigade recently assumed more control in securing restive Haifa street area and Adhamiyah.
03/04/2005 13:38 GMT