Rebel attacks on police leave eight dead in Iraq

Insurgents gunned down a neighbourhood police chief and set off a suicide bomb near a patrol guarding a holy shrine, part of a series of attacks today targeting Iraqi security forces and leaving at least eight people dead, including four police officers.

Gunmen opened fire on a car carrying police Col. Abdul Karim Fahad Abbass as he headed to work in the sprawling south-eastern Doura quarter, killing the neighbourhood station chief and his driver, Capt. Falah al-Muhimadawi said.