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A wave of shootings and bombings targeting checkpoints in the Iraqi capital and houses in the western province of Anbar killed 13 people and wounded 35 others today, security officials said.Shootings with automatic weapons against six police or army checkpoints in both east and west Baghdad accounted for seven of the dead, an interior ministry official told AFP.Two other policemen died in a series of three bomb attacks in south and west Baghdad."The attacks started at 0900IST and ended around 1030IST," the official said.Nearly all of the wounded were security personnel, the official added.There were also four bomb attacks on houses in and around the Sunni insurgent bastion city of Fallujah, 60 kilometres west of Baghdad, three of which were owned by security officials.Two people were killed and two others wounded in an attack in the centre of the city, while a second bomb in the house of a police officer in Zaba village, east of Fallujah, killed him, his wife and wounded two others.A third bomb attack in Nazzal neighbourhood in Fallujah wounded five women and two children, police said.A doctor at Fallujah hospital confirmed a total of four people had been killed and 11 injured in the attacks.The number of Iraqis killed in violence in April fell slightly month on month but was almost unchanged from 12 months ago.Figures compiled by the health, interior and defence ministries showed that 328 people -- 274 civilians, 39 police and 15 soldiers -- died as a result of attacks in April, only slightly fewer than the 355 killed 12 months ago.April's death toll, however, was down slightly on March, when 367 people were killed in unrest.
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