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BAGHDAD, JAN. 10. The deputy police chief of Baghdad and his son, also a police officer, were shot dead on Monday, and a suicide car bomb detonated inside a police station, killing at least four policemen, as violence soared ahead of a landmark election. Over the weekend, U.S. troops opened fire near a checkpoint south of Baghdad after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb and a hospital official said on Sunday at least eight persons were killed in the second American attack in two days to have deadly results. On Monday, Brig. Amer Ali Nayef and his son, Lt. Khalid Amer, were assassinated in Baghdad's south Dora district while travelling in a car on their way to work, said a spokesman for the Interior Ministry, Capt. Ahmed Ismail. Gunmen sprayed machine-gun fire from two cars, which were driving parallel with the police chief's vehicle before fleeing the scene of the attack close to his home, police said. The two were alone in their car. In a separate attack on Monday, a suicide car bomb exploded in the courtyard of a police station in southern Baghdad, killing at least four policemen and injuring 10 others, police and witnesses said. A fake police car packed with explosives was used in the attack. The killings were the latest in a series of attacks against ranking Iraqi security force officials, policemen and politicians on the eve of the January 30 election that militants are trying to disrupt. Last Tuesday, gunmen shot dead the Governor of Baghdad. — AP
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