BAGHDAD (AP) Bombings and shootings across Iraq, including the killing of a television cameraman, left seven people dead Thursday as a wave of violent attacks striking the country rages on, officials said.
The deadliest attack happened Thursday night when gunmen in a speeding car opened fire on a small fast food restaurant in Baghdad's western neighborhood of Amariyah, killing four people and wounding seven, authorities said. An hour later, police said a bomb exploded near a cafe in the town of Madain, 20 kilometers (14 miles) south of Baghdad. The blast killed two people and wounded seven, they said.
In the northern city of Mosul, police said gunmen killed Bashar al-Nuaimi, a cameraman working for local TV channel al-Moussilyah, as he was walking near his house. They offered no immediate motive for the attack, though journalists have been targeted by militants in the past.
Hospital officials confirmed the casualties for the attacks. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to journalists.
Violence has been on the rise in Iraq since a security crackdown in April on a Sunni protest site in the northern town of Hawijah. At least 462 people have died in attacks across the country so far this month, according to an Associated Press count.
