By DPA
Baghdad : At least nine Iraqis were killed and three wounded Thursday in a series of acts of violence in the suburbs of Baquba city in Diyala province of Iraq, security sources and witnesses said.
Gunmen shot dead three Iraqi soldiers, and injured another three in an attack in Saadiya district in east Baquba, the sources said.
Separately, three policemen were killed in a similar attack targeting a police patrol in Mandali area. Iraqi police also discovered nine unidentified bodies, who were shot dead, in the area.
A member in the so-called Baquba Awakening Conference was killed near a checkpoint in the centre of the city. Another member and a policeman were killed in clashes between the conference members and policemen in New Baquba neighbourhood.
The Baquba Awakening Conference is an affiliation of tribesmen fighting Al Qaeda terrorist network in Diyala province.
No further details were given about the reason of the clashes.
The US forces, meanwhile, detained eight Iraqis, including a policeman, in a raid in the new Baquba area.
An Iraqi woman was killed and five other civilians were injured, in the second attack targeting Kurdistan Democratic Party premises in 24 hours, reports said Thursday.
A suicide attacker driving a car bomb blew himself up outside the party building in Mosul, 400 km north of Baghdad, Voices of Iraq news agency reported.
At least 20 people were wounded Wednesday, five of them seriously, including party members, in a similar attack on the party building in Kirkuk, 250 km northeast of Baghdad.
Masoud Barazani, the President of the Kurdish autonomous region, is the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party.