More Iraq attacks fatal to at least 18

BAGHDAD — Militants unleashed attacks Wednesday in and around Baghdad, killing at least 18 people, officials said.

The deadliest attack killed three policemen and three civilians when a suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden vest at a police checkpoint in Baghdad’s Shiite neighborhood of Shula, a police officer said. At least 15 people were wounded in the explosion, he added.

In the town of Youssifiyah, 12 miles south of Baghdad, a bomb explosion in a commercial area killed at least three shoppers and wounded nine others, another police officer said. Elsewhere, three intelligence officers affiliated with the Interior Ministry were gunned down by drive-by shooters armed with pistols fitted with silencers in the northeastern suburb of Rashidiya, police said.

Another bomb explosion in a commercial area in the capital’s southwestern Saydiya neighborhood killed two civilians and wounded five others.

Also Wednesday, a mortar attack on a camp for displaced civilians south of Baghdad killed four people and wounded eight, according to Iraqi officials.