One policeman killed, three wounded in Baghdad shooting

BAGHDAD - One policeman was shot dead and three wounded when gunmen opened fire on their patrol in western Baghdad on Friday, security officials and medics said.
Two civilians were also hurt in the shooting, Yarmuk hospital medics said.
And a bomb exploded in another western district of the capital as a US military convoy drove by, an interior ministry official said.
The US military could not immediately confirm the incident.

05/13/2005 07:22 GMT