Iraq attacks kill five policemen, town mayor

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RAMADI, Jan 12 (AFP): Gun attacks in Baghdad and predominantly Sunni west Iraq Wednesday left five policemen and a town mayor dead, security and medical officials said.
The violence comes three weeks after US troops completed their withdrawal from Iraq, with the country locked in a political standoff that has raised sectarian tensions.
In Wednesday's deadliest attack, insurgents attacked a police station near the Syrian border early in the morning and killed three policemen, including a captain, according to police and a medic.
Police killed one of the gunmen who carried out the attack in the town of Al-Qaim, in mostly Sunni Anbar province west of Baghdad, and wounded another. "Three police-two policemen and a captain-were killed when several armed men attacked the police station," said police Captain Mohanned Mukhlif Hamadi.