16 killed in new series of Iraq attacks: officials

Bombings and shootings in Iraq today killed 16 people, many of them security forces members, officials said, the latest in a wave of violence that authorities are struggling to contain.
In the deadliest attack, a bomb exploded on a bus in Sadr City, a Shiite area in north Baghdad, killing at least five people and wounding at least 26, security and medical officials said.
In Tarmiyah, north of Baghdad, a suicide bomber driving an explosives-rigged truck killed four people, among them two police, and wounded eight.
Four police died in clashes in Mosul, while Lieutenant Colonel Faris al-Rashidi, a senior police intelligence officer, was killed and three police wounded in a bombing near the northern city, officials said.

And gunmen killed two Sahwa anti-Al-Qaeda militiamen near Tikrit, north of Baghdad.
The violence comes a day after a wave of bombings attacks, killed 58 people and wounded 187.
Violence in Iraq has fallen from its peak in 2006 and 2007, but attacks remain common, killing at least 220 people each month so far this year.