Attacks on Iraq checkpoints kill 8

Three attacks on separate checkpoints north of Baghdad yesterday killed eight people, including four policemen and three anti-Qaeda militiamen, Iraqi officials said.
Unknown gunmen killed four policemen in an attack on a checkpoint on a road near Tikrit, 160 kilometres north of Baghdad, a Tikrit police officer and a medic from the town's hospital said.
Three anti-Qaeda Sahwa militiamen were killed by a bomb placed in a caravan at a checkpoint near Balad, 70 kilometres north of the Iraqi capital, a police officer and a medic from Balad said.
And gunmen attacked an army checkpoint in Dujail, 60 kilometres north of Baghdad, killing a soldier and kidnapping four others, an Iraqi army officer said.