Baghdad: Five people were killed in violence in Iraq today, two of them tribal chiefs allied with the US military in the fight against Al-Qaeda, security sources said.

The two Sunni Arab tribal leaders died in the main northern city of Mosul when gunmen burst into the building which they were visiting.

The pair were both members of an anti-Qaeda grouping in the town of Tal Afar, west of Mosul, and had "worked to bring peace to Iraq," the town s mayor Najem Abdullah said.

Both Mosul and Tal Afar lie in Nineveh province which has seen a major US-backed offensive by the Iraqi security forces against the jihadists since May 14.

In Baghdad, three people died and 12 were wounded when a roadside bomb detonated in the central Karrada district as an Iraqi army patrol passed.

Source : PTI