BAGHDAD: Three men guarding a Sunni mosque in Baghdad were shot dead overnight when gunmen, dressed in police commando uniforms, attacked the building, an interior ministry official said on Sunday.
Six other guards were wounded in an exchange of gunfire that went on for an hour in the Jihad neighbourhood of west Baghdad, the official added. There was no damage to the mosque.
Meanwhile, one Iraqi soldier was killed and two wounded when a suicide bomber blew up a car at an army checkpoint in Mahmudiya, south of the capital, on Saturday night, the official said.
