An explosion has killed at least four Iraqi police recruits and wounded 23 others in Baghdad, police have said.

The recruits were gathered at a police recruitment centre on Muthanna airport street, western Baghdad, when they were attacked by an improvised explosive device(IED) on Sunday.
 
In a separate attack on Sunday, three people were killed in a mortar attack inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, an interior ministry official said.
 
The attack apparently targeted the defence ministry but the mortar bomb hit one of the entrances to the Green Zone, the official said.
 
Last week, a Filipino man was killed and two female compatriots were injured in another mortar attack on the Green Zone.

In another attack on Sunday, a mortar hit the Iraqi ministry of planning office, wounding seven civilians.

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Thousands of police and police recruits have been killed in attacks in Iraq since the 2003 US-led invasion.

Violence has declined following George Bush, the US president, sent 30,000 extra troops to Iraq.

The rise of Sunni tribal "Awakening Councils" against al-Qaeda and a ceasefire ordered by Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia leader of the al-Mahdi Army, have helped to reduce incidents of violence.

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