By IANS,
Baghdad : Seven people, including five women, were killed and 16 wounded in separate attacks across Iraq, police said Friday.
Two women were killed and two wounded early Friday when a mortar round landed on their house in al-Mahlabiyah in the west of Mosul, 400 km north of Baghdad, Xinhua quoted police as saying.
Late Thursday, gunmen broke into a house in Ur neighbourhood in the eastern part of Baghdad and shot dead three women.
In a separate incident, 11 young men playing football were wounded Thursday night when two mortars hit a football field in western Samarra city, some 120 km north of Baghdad, a police source said.
Gunmen also shot dead a shopowner at his shop in Nahrawan area in Baghdad. A civilian was killed when a bomb planted at his shop detonated in Maqdadiyah city, some 100 km northeast of Baghdad.
Iraq is witnessing its worst eruption of violence in five years.