A car bomb killed two people near Poland's Embassy in Baghdad, five days after the Polish Ambassador was wounded in a separate attack. The police station targeted was in a village near the city of Samarra, 100 km north of Baghdad.

Nine others were killed by roadside bombs or car bombs across Iraq. One car bomb killed four people and wounded 10, including women and children, near central Baghdad's Technology University.

Two US soldiers also died, one in combat operations in Anbar province and another from wounds sustained on October 5 during fighting near the town of Baiji north of the capital.

US Embassy officials on October 8 repeated their condemnation of the attacks on the Polish Embassy, which still has about 1,000 of its troops stationed in southern Iraq.

Washington and US commanders have credited a security crackdown involving 30,000 extra US troops with the significant fall in the number of troops and civilians killed in Iraq in September, but they also say the level of violence is still too high.