Six dead in day of violence in Iraq

Insurgents targeted Iraqi and US forces with gunfire, suicide attacks and mortar rounds today, leaving at least six people dead – including a top anti-corruption official and a US soldier.

In the north, a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a government compound in Mosul, killing himself and Walid Kashmoula, the head of the Iraqi police anti-corruption department, officials said. Three others were injured.