A spate of violence killed at least four Iraqis and injured others across Baghdad. The attacks were mainly targeting traffic police.

A spate of violence killed at least four Iraqis and injured others across Baghdad. The attacks were mainly targeting traffic police.

In the deadliest attack,  gunmen opened fire on a traffic police patrol near the Al-Sarafiyah bridge in Waziriyah neighborhood in the north of the capital on Monday morning.
Three people were killed and one wounded, according to an official at Medical City hospital. An interior ministry official put the toll at four killed and six wounded.

In west Baghdad\'s Mansur district, a roadside bomb detonated near another traffic police patrol and when emergency responders arrived at the scene, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives vest, security officials said.
One person was killed and six were wounded officials from the ministries of interior and defense said.

Three separate incidents -- two roadside bombs and a mortar attack -- in east Baghdad also left nine policemen and two police cadets wounded, the interior ministry official and a police officer said.