Five killed in bombings in northeast Iraqi city

BAGHDAD, March 3 (Reuters) - Suicide bombers attacked two police stations and a hospital in a city northeast of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least five people and wounding 20 in a tense run-up to a parliamentary election, police said.

One attacker drove an explosives-packed car at the headquarters of a police rapid reaction force in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of the capital Baghdad.

Baquba is in Diyala province where Sunni Islamist militant groups like al Qaeda still battle U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces, police said. (Writing by Michael Christie; Editing by Ralph Gowling)