BAGHDAD: Insurgents killed at least 10 people in Iraq on Monday, including six in a suicide truck bomb attack in the northern town of Tal Afar, officials said.

A bomber slammed his explosives-laden truck against a joint Iraqi police and army checkpoint in the centre of Tal Afar, the town s mayor Najim al-Juburi said.

Juburi said those killed included two policeman, a soldier and three civilians, while 17 civilians were wounded in the attack.

In Baghdad, two children were killed and their mother and a brother were wounded when a mortar hit their home, a medic and a security official said.

The attack took place in Baghdad s eastern Talbiyah neighborhood on Monday, they said.

A medic at the Al-Kindy hospital confirmed the casualties.

A woman was killed and another wounded when gunmen sprayed bullets on a minibus in the western Yarmukh neighbourhood of Baghdad, a security official said.

The bus was carrying employees of Al-Rafidayin Bank, he said.

An Iraqi soldier was killed and three others wounded when a roadside bomb struck their patrol in the northern oil city of Kirkruk, city police chief Brigadier General Borhan Habibi said.

A car bomb in the city also wounded six people, he said.

Police also found the bodies of three men west of Baquba, the capital of the restive Diyala province.