BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed at least four people and wounded six in an attack at a police station north of Baghdad on Saturday, Iraqi police said.
The attack occurred at about 8 a.m. (6 a.m. British time) near the town of Shirqat, 300 km (190 miles) north of Baghdad, in Salahuddin province.
Iraq is struggling to recover from a rash of violence that has raised questions about the durability of security gains, including truck bomb attacks that killed almost 100 people near government ministries on August 19.
There also has been a series of attacks in areas of northern Iraq where tension is high between majority Arabs, ethnic Kurds and other minorities. Much of the violence has taken place in Nineveh province, near Shirqat.
The government, looking towards a general election in January, is striving to show Iraqis that it is on top of the security situation as American troops prepare to withdraw gradually by the end of 2011.
(Writing by Missy Ryan; editing by Michael Roddy)
