Attacks killed nine people in Iraq on Wednesday, while two bombs exploded near a convoy of parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi’s guards, wounding at least five, officials said.

Attacks killed nine people in Iraq on Wednesday, while two bombs exploded near a convoy of parliament speaker Osama al-Nujaifi's guards, wounding at least five, officials said.

South of Baghdad, a roadside bomb detonated near a truck carrying workers, killing eight people and wounding seven, while gunmen shot dead a policeman near the northern city of Kirkuk.

And a car bomb followed by a roadside bomb exploded near Nujaifi's convoy south of the northern city of Mosul, his office told AFP, adding that the parliament speaker was not travelling with it, as he was on a trip to Jordan.

Nujaifi issued a statement condemning the attack.

With the latest violence, more than 230 people have been killed so far this month, and more than 4,900 since the beginning of the year, according to AFP figures based on security and medical sources.