Bombings kill at least 10 in Iraq

FALLUJAH, Iraq, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- A bomb killed two Iraqi police officers and four security guards in Fallujah, Iraq, and an improvised explosive device killed a U.S. soldier south of Baghdad.

The death of the U.S. soldier, killed Wednesday while on patrol, was the 13th in Iraq this month and brings to 3,857 the number of U.S. fatalities since the start of the war March 20, 2003, the Multi-National Force said in a statement Thursday.

A suicide bomber driving a car packed with explosives killed one person and wounded five others outside the building housing the offices of the Kurdistan Democratic Party in Talsqaf, the Kuwait news agency KUNA reported. Two policemen died and five others were wounded in a bombing in the center of Al-Kut, south of Baghdad.

The blast in Talsqaf, in a mainly Christian region near the northern city of Mosel, damaged a building and nearby stores. KUNA said a curfew was imposed in the Al-Karma area north of Fallujah Thursday after two high-ranking Iraqi police officers in Al-Anbar province were killed.

Meanwhile, the head of Iraq's education authority, Qahtan al-Musawi, survived a bomb attack in Basra that wounded his driver and four companions, KUNA said.