Iraq bombs kill eight in worst violence in weeks

Bombings against a policeman's home and three mosques killed eight people and wounded 13 yesterday, security officials said, in the worst violence to hit Iraq in weeks.
A bomb targeting the home of a policeman in the Saqlawiya district outside the one-time insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, about 60 kilometres (37.5 miles) west of Baghdad, killed four people early yesterday, police Captain Omar Abbud said.
The policeman, a member of the local anti-terrorism force, was not present at the time of the attack, but the bomb killed his 55-year-old mother and three other members of his family, Abbud said.