BAGHDAD — Officials say gunmen in speeding cars shot and killed three people in Baghdad while a bombing at a teahouse the night before also killed three.



A police officer says attackers opened fire from a speeding car at two doctors in the eastern New Baghdad neighborhood on Thursday morning, killing one and wounding the other.



The officer says a similar drive-by shooting in the eastern Zafaraniyah neighborhood killed a woman doctor and a school guard.



Another officer says a bomb went off late Wednesday inside a teahouse in the capital’s northern Azamiyah neighborhood, killing three people and wounding 14 there.Two medical officials con firmed the casualty figures. They spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to talk to the media.



On Wednesday, suicide attacks, bombings and shootings killed at least 17, officials said. The deadliest attack was in Baghdad’s southeastern suburb of Nahrawan, where a roadside bomb went off in a busy street, killing at least seven civilians, a police officer said.



In the southeastern Zafaraniyah neighborhood, the bodies of three workers were found inside a house under construction, another police officer said. — AP