Baghdad  - A policeman was killed on Monday and three members of the Awakening Council were wounded in violence in northern Iraq, media reports and security sources said.

In the northern city of Kirkuk, militants opened fire on an Iraqi patrol killing a policeman, security sources told Deutsche Presse- Agentur dpa.

Sources said that militants have also abducted a child in the city's Adan district.

In Baquba, some 60 kilometres north of Baghdad, three members of the Awakening Council were wounded when a bomb went off near a location of the Awakening Councils in Amin district, the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency said.

Sources told VOI that the injured were moved to hospitals after the blast.

The Awakening Councils are local police squads located mainly in Sunni Iraqi provinces and aim at fighting the al-Qaeda terrorist network. (dpa)