Baghdad  - Four people were killed on Tuesday and another four were wounded in an armed attack on eight policemen in the northern city of Mosul, the Voices of Iraq (VOI) reported.

Unknown gunmen attacked eight new volunteer members on their way to work in the al-Amel district of Mosul. The gunmen fled to an unknown destination, police told VOI.

In Baghdad, meanwhile, seven people were injured in two separate blasts.

In the first blast in the al-Nahda district of central Baghdad, four people were wounded, police told VOI.

The second blast hit al-Nidal street in central Baghdad, wounding three people, police added.

Separately, a senior Kurdish security official escaped an assassination attempt in Touz Khormato district in the northern Salahaddin province.

A bomb went off near the car of Shawan Mohammed, the chief of the Kurdish security agency Asayesh, a security source told VOI.

Mohamed survived the blast but his vehicle was severely damaged, the source added.

Asayesh is a Kurdish intelligence agency. It was established in 1993. (dpa)