Violence in Iraq, including attacks on two members of a district council in the north, killed seven people on Sunday, AFP quoted officers and doctors as saying.

Violence in Iraq, including attacks on two members of a district council in the north, killed seven people on Sunday, AFP quoted officers and doctors as saying.

Five people were killed in Nineveh province, centered on the main northern city of Mosul.

A roadside bomb killed district councilor Mohammed Obaid Sultan south of the city, along with one of his sons. Another son was wounded.

The head of the same Hamam Al-Ali district council, Saad Ali Shuwait, was targeted by a roadside bomb, which wounded four of his guards.

In Mosul itself, two soldiers were shot dead at a checkpoint.

Further south, a policeman was shot dead and another wounded in an attack on a checkpoint, while a roadside bomb targeted Nineveh police chief Brigadier General Khaled Al-Hamdani's convoy, wounding three of his guards.

And a roadside bomb near a restaurant, northwest of the  Diyala provincial capital of Baquba, killed two people and wounded three.