BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraqi police killed three insurgents on Thursday during a gunbattle in a northwestern Baghdad neighborhood that was a flashpoint of violence earlier this week, a city police officer said.
About 30 rebels, armed with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms, set up a false checkpoint in Baghdad's al-Ghazaliya neighborhood. After a 30-minute gunfight, police detained one of the insurgents, the officer said.
The neighborhood is the one in which 28 people were killed Tuesday in a booby-trapped house.
An anonymous caller had directed police to a house in the Ghazaliya neighborhood on Tuesday night -- saying it was an insurgent hideout, a police official said.
Explosives inside the house ignited just as police entered it, killing 28 people -- including Iraqi police and civilians, the official said.
Police stations hit
In separate incidents Thursday, four police stations were attacked in Baghdad.
Insurgents attacked two Iraqi police stations in the western part of the city. No police were wounded in the attack, the officer said, and no other details were available.
The other two Baghdad police stations were attacked 4 a.m. (8 p.m. Wednesday ET), as insurgents driving two cars fired at al-Yarouk police station. Police returned fire, and the attackers fled. Three hours later, insurgents fired on al-Kadraa police station. The police officer offered no other details.
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