Five people were killed on Wednesday and wounded ten others in a car bomb attack in central Iraq.

Five people were killed on Wednesday and wounded ten others in a car bomb attack in central Iraq.

The bomb was apparently targeting a local police chief, officials said adding that the five dead were all civilians.
"Five people were killed and ten wounded by a car bomb" that exploded near the town of Dhuluiyah, 70 kilometers north of Baghdad, a senior police officer in nearby Samarra said.

A medical official in Dhuluiyah hospital confirmed that the facility received five dead people and 10 wounded.

The police officer said that the explosion took place at about 8:30 am (5:30 GMT) when Dhuluiyah police chief Colonel Qandil Khalil's convoy was passing by.

It was the second attack against Khalil's convoy this year, after a previous car bombing in January.