A spate of bombings and shootings across Iraq has claimed the lives of 11 people, including an Iraqi police general.
Three Iraqis died and eight were wounded in two separate
bombings within minutes of each other nearby Baghdad's fortified Green Zone enclave, home to the US embassy and the Iraqi government.
A car bomb exploded at 4:30 pm (1.30pm Irish time) targetting a government convoy not far from the Green Zone.
Minutes later, a suicide bomber blew himself up approaching a police commando convoy and wounded four other Iraqis on a bridge.
The US military confirmed that explosions had been heard, but had no other comment.
Earlier in the day, General Khatam Khalaf al-Obeidi, the deputy police chief in Kirkuk, was killed along with two of his bodyguards in a roadside bombing, police said.
The death of the Sunni Arab general comes amid festering tensions between Arabs and Kurds over the fate of the multi-ethnic city, which sits atop some of the country's largest oil reserves.
Elsewhere, gunmen attacked a three truck convoy on its way to a US military base, killing one driver and wounding another just north of Baghdad in the town of Dujail.
In the capital, assailants shot dead a policeman in the rebel-dominated neighborhood of al-Jihad, while a police commando was gunned down in the al-Bayae district and an Iraqi soldier was killed in the Al-Hurriyah neighbourhood.
Roadside bombs left a pair of policemen wounded in the Fallujah and another eight police injured in areas north of Baghdad.
