In Iraq, at least 31 people were killed and 81 others injured in a coordinated series of attacks targeting security forces and a Shiite mosque today. An interior official ministry official said the bloodshed began in Baghdad where shootings with automatic weapons against six police or army checkpoints accounted for seven of the dead. Two other policemen died in three bombings in south and west Baghdad.A police lieutenant said a double bomb attack near a mosque in Suwayrah, south-east of the capital, killed 11 people and wounded 70. There were also four bomb attacks on houses in and around the former Sunni insurgent bastion of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, three of which were owned by security officials. Police and a doctor at a Fallujah hospital confirmed four people had been killed and 11 injured in the attacks. Seven other people were killed in separate attacks near the main northern city of Mosul. Major General Qassim Atta, a security forces spokesman in Baghdad, said the attacks appeared to be coordinated.