Baghdad bomb kills five

A string of early morning bombings near a technology university in Baghdad today killed five people and injured 18 others, police said.

In west Baghdad, a legal adviser to Iraq’s Interior Ministry was killed in a drive-by shooting as he left home. Gunmen in two cars stopped his personal Hyundai and began shooting, police said.

The explosions in downtown Baghdad – a car bomb and two other smaller bombs - detonated shortly after 7:30am in Baghdad’s Karradah neighbourhood, police 1st Lt Mohammed Khayoun said.

Elsewhere in Iraq, police found seven bullet-riddled bodies dumped in water sanitation tanks near Kut, about 160km (100 miles) southeast of Baghdad, morgue officials said.