BAGHDAD, Sept 21 (SPA ) - Two bomb blasts killed sixpeople and wounded 29 others in northern Iraq on Sunday, policesaid. In Baghdad, gunmen killed a senior Interior Ministryofficial, Brigadier-General Adel Abbas, along with his driver ina drive-by shooting. A suicide truck bomb killed three people and wounded 23 whenit exploded at a police checkpoint in the northern city ofKirkuk, Brigadier-General Sarhat Qader, a local police chief,told Reuters. Kirkuk is 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad. Further south, a roadside bomb struck a minibus, killingthree occupants and wounding six others on a road near the townof Jalawla in volatile Diyala province, police said.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/592032
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