In Iraq, six people were killed today in separate bomb attacks, one of which targeted an official from the secular Iraqiya bloc of former premier Iyad Allawi. An interior ministry official said, in Jurf al-Nadaf near Baghdad, a bomb targeting the convoy of Iraqiya official Karim Mahud killed his bodyguard and three passers-by, and wounded four other civilians. Two more people including a policeman were killed and one was wounded by magnetic bombs attached to their vehicles in the north and centre of the capital.