Two local politicians were killed Tuesday and a mayor was wounded in a roadside bomb attack in Iraq, the police said.

Early in the morning, a roadside bomb struck a convoy of sport utility vehicles in the city of Tuz-Khurmato, some 90 km east of Salahudin's provincial capital of Tikrit, a provincial police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Rasheed Khurshid, a Kurdish member of Salahudin's provincial council, and Qader al-Nu'aimy, head of Tuz-Khurmato's judiciary council, were killed by the blast, while Shalal Abdoul, the mayor of the city who was in a nearby vehicle, was wounded, the source said.

Al-Nu'aimy, an Sunni Arab, is also a candidate for the provincial council in the coming provincial elections slated for April 20.

The convoy was carrying the senior officials from their city Tuz-Khurmato to Tikrit for a meeting, the source added.

Violence is still common in the Iraq despite the dramatic decrease since its peak in 2006 and 2007 when the country was engulfed in sectarian killings. Endi

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