Nine killed, 165 injured in Iraq attacks

Iraqi security officials say at least nine people have been killed and over 160 others injured in bomb and shooting attacks carried out across the country.

Three civilians and two police officers were killed after a bomb explosion near a police station in the town of Dibis, northwest of the oil city of Kirkuk on Monday.

Local officials say most of the people injured in the attack were pupils at a neighboring Kurdish girls’ secondary school.

Elsewhere, gunmen killed one person in the Al-Amil district of Baghdad and another north of the capital, security and medical officials said.

Gunmen also killed a blacksmith near Baquba, north of Baghdad, and a soldier in the main northern city of Mosul.

The violence comes as Iraqi security forces arrested a senior militant leader with links to the al-Qaeda network in Iraq in the western province of al-Anbar.

The detained militant leader had been wanted in connection with a series of terror attacks against civilians and Iraqi government forces.

The incidents are the latest in a string of attacks that have left more than 480 people dead across the country this year, according to a tally by AFP.