Baghdad, Dec 5 : Five people, including a police officer, were killed in three separate attacks carried out by unknown assailants in Iraq's northern Mosul district Saturday, police said.

A police officer and two guards were killed when unknown gunmen opened fire on them in the area.

Later, a woman was killed and her daughter injured by gunmen who fled the scene after the attack. In the eastern Mosul, unidentified men killed an elderly man, according to police. (DPA)