15 killed, nine injured in attacks in Iraq

blog.taranga writes of the bomb blasts in Iraq that killed US soldiers

BAGHDAD - At least 15 people, including three policemen, were killed and nine injured in separate bomb attacks in Iraq Wednesday, according to witnesses and security sources.

Seven people were killed and two injured, from the same family, when a car bomb went off in Kirkuk, witnesses said. A woman and a child were among the dead. The car exploded while it was parked in the house’s garage in al-Orouba district.

Earlier Wednesday, two policemen were killed and another three were injured when a bomb targeting their patrol exploded on the Kirkuk-Daquq road.

Oil-rich Kirkuk, home to Kurds, Turkmen, Christians and Arabs, lies 250 km north of Baghdad.

In the northern city of Mosul, an Iraqi army officer was killed and two civilians were wounded in a bomb blast, according to a security source.

The source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency that the bomb had been stuck to the officer’s vehicle and went off in the al-Majmouaa al-Thaqafiya region of Nineveh province, 400 km north of Baghdad.

Separately, one civilian was killed and two injured in a bomb attack near the northern city of Khanaqin, according to a security source.

The bombing took place near a car in Imam Wes region in al-Saadiya district, south of Khanaqin, Aswat al-Iraq reported.

Four civilians were killed when an explosive device went off near their vehicle in southern city of Karbala, a government source was quoted by Yaqen.net as saying.