In Baghdad, an official of the Iraqi Ministry of National Security was gunned down in a drive-by shooting by armed men using silenced weapons when he was driving on a high way in Baghdad's western district of al-Adil, an interior ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Also in western Baghdad, two civilians were wounded when a sticky bomb attached to their car exploded in Khadraa district, the source said.
In northern Iraq, gunman threw a hand grenade on civilians in a commercial street in central Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, killing a woman and wounding four people, a local police source said.
In Iraq's northern central province of Salahudin, an employee working for the provincial council was injured when a sticky bomb attached to his car detonated in central Salahudin's capital city of Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad, a provincial police source anonymously told Xinhua.
In a separate incident, gunmen using silenced weapons shot dead a brother of a police officer late on Saturday night in front of his house in a village in south Balad, some 80 km north of Baghdad, the source added.
Iraqi cities have been plagued by several attacks, including suicide bombings, since the U.S. troops pulled out of the country late last year.
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