BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb killed six civilians and wounded 14 other people in the Shaab district of northern Baghdad on Sunday, police said.
One woman was among the dead and three policemen werewounded in the attack, which targeted a police patrol.
There has been a relative lull in violence in the Iraqicapital.
In other violence, a roadside bomb killed up to sevenfamily members of a senior Iraqi Kurdish official in Diyalaprovince, police said.
The bomb hit a convoy carrying Mohammed Ramadan and hisfamily in Jalawla, 115 km (70 miles) northeast of Baghdad. Itkilled his wife and two or three of his sons. Police wereunclear of the number and identity of the other family members.
Two of his bodyguards were also killed.
Ramadan, who was wounded, is a senior member of thePatriotic Union of Kurdistan party, one of the two main Kurdishparties in Iraq.
U.S. and Iraqi officials say that violence in Iraq hasdropped to four-year lows. U.S. officials say a surge in U.S.troops last year, a rebellion by Sunni Arab tribal leadersagainst al Qaeda and a ceasefire by anti-American Shi'itecleric Moqtada al-Sadr have helped reduce attacks.
Numbers from the Health Ministry showed 448 civilians werekilled in June in Iraq, from 505 May. The May figure was downfrom 968 civilian deaths in April, a month when fightingspiralled between Shi'ite militias and security forces.
(Writing by Mohammed Abbas: Editing by Elizabeth Piper)
