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Baghdad (AFP) June 7, 2010 Seven people were killed, including a young girl and a policeman, in a spate of attacks across Iraq on Monday, security officials said. In Ramadi, the capital of the predominantly Sunni western Iraqi province of Anbar, insurgents bombed the homes of policemen, destroying three houses and killing a girl, police said. Ten people were also wounded in the attacks. Among the buildings targeted were the homes of two lieutenant colonels, a police officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Also in Anbar, in the former rebel bastion of Fallujah, 60 kilometres (35 miles) west of the capital, four policemen's houses were similarly attacked, injuring 18 people, Captain Anas Mohammed said. Meanwhile, two people were killed, including a policeman, and five others wounded by a roadside bomb targeting a police patrol in the south Baghdad neighbourhood of Al-Amil. Another person was killed and six others wounded when a car bomb detonated in the upscale west Baghdad residential neighbourhood of Mansur, an interior ministry official said. And near the predominantly Shiite district of Sadr City, north Baghdad, a magnetic "sticky bomb" affixed to a mini-bus detonated, killing one person and injuring six others. A grocery store owner in the restive northern city of Mosul was gunned down in his shop, police added. It was not immediately clear why the man was targeted. In the ethnically-mixed disputed northern city of Kirkuk, a mobile phone shop owner was shot dead at around 9:30 pm (1830 GMT), police said. Hani Salim Wadeeyah, 37 -- a Christian -- had been on his way home when he was killed. Iraqi security forces also announced on Monday that three insurgents were killed during a raid of their hideout in the Sunni town of Abu Ghraib, just west of Baghdad. 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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