Six Iraqi policemen were killed and 25 others wounded in a suicide car bombing on the main road to Baghdad airport on Thursday.

A suicide car bomber drove an explosive-laden vehicle into a police convoy on the airport road, killing six policemen and wounding 25 others, most of them were policemen, police said.

The main road leading to Baghdad International Airport, in western Baghdad, is the most dangerous road in the country where insurgents attack US and Iraqi fledgling security forces with roadside bombs, suicide car bombs almost every day.

Earlier on Thursday, a car bomb targetting an Iraqi army patrol exploded in northern Baghdad, wounding five soldiers.

"A car bomb detonated at about 8:30 a.m. (0400 GMT) as an Iraqi army patrol passed near Sulaikh police station in northern Baghdad, injuring five soldiers," a police source said on condition of anonymity.

More than 800 people have been killed across Iraq in violent insurgency since a new Shiite-led government was formed in late April.

Source: Xinhua