BAGHDAD, Dec 31: Insurgents killed at least seven people, including three Iraqi soldiers, on Sunday as former dictator Saddam Hussein was buried in his home village a day after his execution, security officials said.

A group of gunmen in vehicles attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint in Hawijah, west of the northern oil hub of Kirkuk, killing three soldiers and wounding another two, local police Captain Atallah Mahmud said.

Four more people were killed in several attacks in Baghdad.

Two were killed and another two wounded when apparent Sunni extremists fired a Katyusha rocket in the capital's northwest of Kadhimiyah where Saddam was hanged on Saturday.

Another Iraqi was killed and six others wounded in a car bomb attack in the northern neighbourhood of Hurriyah, a day after 37 people died in a triple car bomb attack in the same area.—AFP