Seven killed in Iraq attacks

A spate of gun and bomb attacks across northern and central Iraq on
Saturday killed seven people and left four others wounded, security
officials said.

In the disputed northern city of Kirkuk, a Shiite Turkman chemicals
specialist for the state-owned North Oil Company was killed by a
magnetic "sticky bomb" attached to his car.

Hussein Mohsen Maqsud, a member of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's
Dawa Party, had just left his home when the explosion occurred, a police
officer and a party official said.

Also in Kirkuk, a civilian was killed in a gun attack in the north of
the city, 240 kilometres (150 miles) north of Baghdad, the police
officer said.