Eight people were killed and 12 others were wounded in bomb and gun attacks in Iraq on Friday.

Eight people were killed and 12 others were wounded in bomb and gun attacks in Iraq on Friday.

In the first two attacks “four people were killed and seven wounded in two attacks by roadside bombs in the Taji area," just north of Baghdad, an interior ministry official said.

The home of Nadhem Karim Mohammed, a leader of anti-Qaeda Sahwa militia forces in Taji, killing him and his mother about 7:00 am (0400 GMT), the official said.

When police arrived at the scene, another bomb went off, killing two police and wounding seven others.

In the second attack unknown gunmen attacked a Sahwa checkpoint in the Al-Sharqat area, 120 kilometers northeast of Tikrit, killing three Sahwa members and wounding two others, a police major said.

And in Al-Tuz, about 75 kilometers south of the northern oil city of Kirkuk, a magnetic "sticky bomb" on a car killed a policeman while a roadside bomb wounded three civilians, police Major Khaled al-Bayati said.