41 killed in Iraq attacks

At least 41 people, including a senior police officer, were killed and 34 injured Friday in violent attacks and clashes in Iraq, police said.

Fifteen people were killed and five others were injured when a suicide truck bomber attacked a police brigade headquarters in the village of Anjana near Adheam, some 120 km northeast of Iraq's capital Baghdad, a local police source told Xinhua.

Brigadier General Raghib Radhi al-Omairi of the Iraqi Federal Police and four of his bodyguards were among those killed in the suicide attack, the source said.

Two policemen and eight Al Qaeda-linked militants were killed and two policemen were injured in clashes between the two sides in Buhriz area near the city of Baquba, 60 km northeast of Baghdad.

Six people were killed and 18 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a funeral for a leader of the pro-government Awakening militias in central Ramadi, 100 km west of Baghdad, a security source said.

Three government employees working for the North Oil Company were killed and six injured in a shooting at a bus near the town of Tuz Khurmatu, 170 km north of Baghdad.

In Samarra, 120 km north of Baghdad, two members of the federal police forces were killed and three injured when a suicide car bomb went off at a police checkpoint, the police source said.

After the explosion, unidentified gunmen attacked the checkpoint and kidnapped five policemen. Two Hummer vehicles and some weapons and ammunition were also taken by them, the source said.

Three gunmen and two policemen were killed when clashes broke out in six villages in the area of Qaratapa, 65 km northeast of Baghdad, the police source said.