The attacks occurred in Iraq 's oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk , police said . On Tuesday , an Iraqi army officer , Brigadier General Ahsan Ali Mohammed , was killed when a bomb exploded outside his house in western Baghdad 's Ghazaliya neighborhood , police said . A suicide bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint near the city's main hospital, killing two people and wounding six others before he was shot dead by police, officials said.
The attacks occurred in Iraq 's oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk , police said . A suicide bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint near the city's main hospital, killing two people and wounding six others before he was shot dead by police, officials said.