Bomb and gun attacks against police and anti-Qaeda militiamen killed 11 people and wounded 38 across Iraq yesterday, security officials said.

The attacks come amid fears that security may worsen after the departure of US forces from Iraq. The roughly 34,000 American soldiers still in the country are to leave by year’s end.

Two roadside bombs exploded near a police special forces checkpoint in the Karrada district of central Baghdad about 6.45 p.m. (1545 GMT), killing five people, including four police, and wounding 10 others, among them five police, an interior ministry official said on condition of anonymity.

A medical source at Ibn Nafis hospital in Karrada meanwhile said it had received the bodies of three people killed and seven people who were wounded in the bombings.

Yesterday morning, a suicide bomber and a car bomb targeted anti-Qaeda militiamen near Baquba, north of Baghdad, killing five people and wounding 26, an army officer and a doctor said.