A man inspects the site of a bomb attack at a Shi'ite Muslim village near the Iraqi city of Baquba, 40 miles northeast of Baghdad on Jan. 25, 2014. Mohammed Adnan/Reuters

At least 17 people were killed in a fresh wave of violence across Iraq on Saturday, which included a car bombs and mortar attack on a Shia Muslim village, police and medical sources said.

The deadliest attack took place near the Iraqi city of Baquba, 40 miles northeast of Baghdad, where three mortar bombs killed six people, police said.

A woman and a child were among the victims, five of whom belonged to the same family, the police said, adding that the assailants might have been aiming at a nearby police station.

Violence in Iraq climbed back to its highest level in five years in 2013, when nearly 9,000 people were killed, most of them civilians, according to the United Nations.