Eight killed in Iraq

At least eight people were killed and 13 injured in separate incidents in various regions of Iraq Sunday, police said.

Three soldiers were killed and four others injured when a roadside bomb went off near a military vehicle at a village in al-Shora area near Mosul city, some 400 km north of here, reported Xinhua citing a police source.

An explosives expert was killed, while two policemen were wounded when an attempt to defuse an improvised explosive device went wrong at Hamam al-Alil town, some 25 km south of Mosul, the source said.

In Salahudin province, a roadside bomb went off near a judge's house in the provincial capital city of Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad, killing the judge and critically wounding his wife.

Two members of a family were killed and six people got injured when a mortar round struck a house in Abu Ghraib area, some 25 km west of Baghdad.

In Fallujah city, some 50 km west of Baghdad, a group of gunmen shot dead a policeman outside his house.