3 Iraqi police die in separate attacks

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Two policemen were killed and three hurt in clashes the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Sunday, police said.

Fighting broke out when gunmen opened fire on a police checkpoint, said Brig. Abdel-Karim Khalaf, spokesman for police in Nineveh province.

Mosul lies 225 miles northwest of Baghdad.

Another policeman was killed when gunmen opened fire on a police station in the Iraqi capital's Azamiyah neighborhood, a Sunni district, police said. Security forces responded by doing house-to-house searches nearby, but found nothing.

Also Sunday, a bomb hidden in a cigarette cart exploded in central Baghdad, wounding four civilians and damaging two cars, police said.

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