Bomb attacks across Iraq killed 5 including a senior prison official and a policeman

Five Iraqis were killed and 28 others were injured in separate attacks, security officials said.

In the town of Badoush, just outside the main northern city of Mosul, two people were killed including a senior prison official, when two car bombs exploded at the residential compound for Badoush prison.

"Two car bombs detonated today (Monday) at around 9:00 am (0600 GMT) in a residential compound for prison security guards in Badoush," Major Khalid Jamal al-Din said
"Among the dead was Lieutenant Colonel Hussein Khalaf, the head of the prison's emergency response team, and another civilian working in the prison." Jamal al-Din added.
The explosions also wounded 11 prison guards and five civilians, Jamal al-Din added.

Meanwhile, in town of Qaim on the Syrian border some 340 kilometers west of Baghdad, two people were killed and five others were wounded by two roadside bombs, including one in a market, Lieutenant Ali Shaker of Anbar province's police said.

And in Baghdad, a policeman was killed and seven people were wounded, including three policemen, by two separate roadside bombs against police patrols in the center and east of the capital, an interior ministry official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.