SAMARRA, Oct 8: A suicide bomber killed 14 people on Monday when he exploded his truck at a police post near Samarra, capping a day of bombings across Iraq which also killed six other people, officials said.

Three of those killed in the suicide attack in Dejlaa, 140 kilometres north of Baghdad, were policemen, police spokesman Ala Atia said.

The blast destroyed four cars and also wounded 26 people, among them police and civilians, Atia said.

The attack was the deadliest since 28 people were killed and 34 wounded in a suicide bombing inside a mosque near Baquba a fortnight ago.

Three car bombs in Baghdad, including a second strike near the Polish embassy within a week, left at least six people dead and dozens wounded, Iraqi officials said.

The bloodiest was a car bombing in front of computer shops in Al-Sinaa, the technology hub of the capital, that killed four people and wounded 10, some of them women and children.

A second car bomb exploded near the Polish embassy, killing one person, just days after Poland’s ambassador was injured in a triple bombing in the same neighbourhood.

Monday’s bomb blast about 100 metres from the embassy in Baghdad’s Al-Arasat district killed a passer-by and wounded three others, defence and interior ministry officials said.

A car bomb in the north Baghdad Shiite district of Kadhimiyah killed one person and wounded four, while another bomb in the capital wounded four people.

Near executed Iraqi president Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit, a suicide car bomber struck at a checkpoint, wounding six police and two civilians.

The attack at the Polish embassy came just five days after roadside bombs, timed to go off at short intervals, ripped through the diplomatic convoy of ambassador Edward Pietrzyk as he left his residence.

Two Iraqis and a Polish bodyguard were killed and 14 people, including the ambassador, were wounded.

US forces killed five suspected insurgents and captured three in a raid in Baghdad’s sprawling Sadr City ghetto,

bastion of the Madhi Army militia of Shiite radical leader Moqtada al-Sadr, the US military said.

A statement said the target of the raid was a suspected ‘special groups’ commander linked to kidnappings and bombings in Baghdad.—AFP