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Baghdad (AFP) June 6, 2010 A spate of bomb attacks in and around Baghdad Sunday morning killed five people, including four policemen, and wounded 24 others, security officials said. In the deadliest explosion, a suicide car bomb outside a police station killed four policemen and wounded 12 other police officials in Al-Amil district, in the south of the capital. The blast occurred at around 8:00 am (0500 GMT), officials from the interior and defence ministries said, speaking on condition of anonymity. And in central Baghdad's Allawi neighbourhood, an electrical engineer was killed when a magnetic "sticky bomb" attached to his car detonated. Two others were wounded in the attack, the interior ministry official said. Two other people were wounded in a roadside bomb targeting a police convoy in Baghdad Jadidah ("New Baghdad" in Arabic), in the west of the city. And in Mahmudiyah, 30 kilometres (18 miles) south of the capital, eight people were wounded in another roadside bomb attack near the town's municipal council offices. Iraqi government figures showed that 337 people were killed as a result of violence in May, the fourth time this year where the overall death toll has been higher than the same month in 2009.
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