A series of attacks in and around Baghdad and in north Iraq on Sunday killed 10 people, including three soldiers and two policemen, security and medical officials said. The gun and bomb attacks took to 256 the number of people killed nationwide so far this month. In Baghdad, five people were shot dead and two wounded in three separate attacks, officials said. Gunmen armed with silencer-equipped pistols shot dead three security guards in Baghdad's eastern district of Zayouna, an interior ministry official and a medic at the capital's Al-Kindi Hospital said. Another shooting in Urr, a neighbourhood in north Baghdad, left two policemen dead and another wounded, the interior ministry official and a doctor at nearby Imam Ali Hospital said.
