A suicide car bomber and a mortar killed six people and injured 23 people in two separate attacks Friday in downtown Baghdad, police said. The suicide car bomber blew himself up next to a police patrol in a commercial area on al-Kifah street, killing three Iraqi civilians and injuring two police officers, Lt. Ali Mitaab said. The mortar landed in Baghdad's Shourja market and killed 3 Iraqi civilians and injured 21 others, police Lt. Thaer Mahmoud said. The market was closed because of the Friday holiday.function initServerVars() { _headup.clientHost = 'http://newstopics.jpost.com'; _headup.termsFromServer = 0; _headup.annotatedTerms = 0; _headup.widgetMode = 'snippet'; _headup.snippetButtonStyle = 'banner'; _headup.blackListedUrl = false; } <!-- Terms Count: 0 TTL: 4 Terms From Server: DateTime: 6/12/2011 12:48:47 AM -->