Baghdad bombing kills woman and two sons

A bomb exploded outside a Baghdad home Tuesday, killing a woman and two of her sons aged nine and 12.

The attack, just after 7am local time, destroyed the building housing two families. The woman’s other 13-year-old son was wounded in the bombing, as were two brothers of the second family, police Lt. Mazin Saied said.

North of the capital, a car bomb parked near the home of a city council member in Samarra exploded as his son was leaving the house about 8am. The son was not harmed, but one of his security guards was killed, and four other guards were wounded in the attack, police Capt. Laith Mohammed said.

Samarra is 60 miles north of Baghdad.

In southern Iraq, gunmen killed a policeman and wounded another as the two were driving in the city of Basra, 340 miles south-east of Baghdad.