The daily Iraqi violence report is compiled by McClatchy Newspapers Special Correspondents in Baghdad from police, military and medical reports. This is not a comprehensive list of all violence in Iraq, much of which goes unreported. It’s posted without editing as transmitted to McClatchy’s Washington Bureau.
Baghdad
Around 5 p.m. three bombs detonated near churches in Karrada neighborhood in Baghdad injuring eight civilians.
Four civilians were killed and 21 others were wounded by a parked car bomb near a church in Palestine neighborhood in northeast Baghdad around 7 p.m.
A civilian was killed and four others were wounded by an adhesive bomb that was stuck to a sedan in Saidiyah neighborhood in south Baghdad around 8 p.m.
Three civilians were wounded when a bomb detonated near a church in Doura neighborhood in south Baghdad around 8 p.m.
Kirkuk
Gunmen driving a speeding car using pistols with silencers assassinated the director of the financial inspection department in Kirkuk while he was going to work on Sunday morning.