6 people killed in separate attacks in Iraq Saturday, April 10, 2010 10:02 AM
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BAGHDAD, Apr. 10, 2010 (Xinhua News Agency) -- Six people were killed and seven others wounded in separate attacks in northern and western Iraq on Saturday, the police said.
Two policemen and one Iraqi soldier were killed by a roadside bomb explosion near a joint police and Iraqi army force while conducting a patrol in Qiyara area, some 60 km south of Mosul, the capital city of Iraq's northern province of Nineveh, local police told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
In another attack, a roadside bomb explosion struck an Iraqi army patrol in the Hamam al-Alil area, some 25 km south of Mosul, killing a soldier and a child who was close to the blast site, the source said.
Meanwhile, two soldiers were wounded in a small arms fire attack against their patrol in western Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, the source added.
Nineveh province, including its capital Mosul, remains one of Iraq's most volatile areas despite major security crackdowns by U. S. troops and Iraqi security forces to uproot the insurgency which erupted shortly after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Two bombs exploded in front of the house of a former police officer in the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, killing his wife and two of his children. he said.
Afterwards, a third bomb hidden outside the same house detonated after Iraqi security forces and neighbors arrived at the scene, wounding two more people, he added.
Fallujah is part of Anbar province which has been relatively calm for more than two years after Sunni tribes and anti-U.S. insurgent groups turned to cooperate with the U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces against al-Qaida in Iraq network after the latter exercised indiscriminate killings against both Shiite and Sunni Muslim communities.
Sporadic attacks continue in Iraq more than a month after the country held its landmark parliamentary election which is widely expected to shape the political landscape of the war-torn country.
(Source: iStockAnalyst )
BAGHDAD, Apr. 10, 2010 (Xinhua News Agency) -- Six people were killed and seven others wounded in separate attacks in northern and western Iraq on Saturday, the police said.
Two policemen and one Iraqi soldier were killed by a roadside bomb explosion near a joint police and Iraqi army force while conducting a patrol in Qiyara area, some 60 km south of Mosul, the capital city of Iraq's northern province of Nineveh, local police told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
In another attack, a roadside bomb explosion struck an Iraqi army patrol in the Hamam al-Alil area, some 25 km south of Mosul, killing a soldier and a child who was close to the blast site, the source said.
Meanwhile, two soldiers were wounded in a small arms fire attack against their patrol in western Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, the source added.
Nineveh province, including its capital Mosul, remains one of Iraq's most volatile areas despite major security crackdowns by U. S. troops and Iraqi security forces to uproot the insurgency which erupted shortly after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Two bombs exploded in front of the house of a former police officer in the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, killing his wife and two of his children. he said.
Afterwards, a third bomb hidden outside the same house detonated after Iraqi security forces and neighbors arrived at the scene, wounding two more people, he added.
Fallujah is part of Anbar province which has been relatively calm for more than two years after Sunni tribes and anti-U.S. insurgent groups turned to cooperate with the U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces against al-Qaida in Iraq network after the latter exercised indiscriminate killings against both Shiite and Sunni Muslim communities.
Sporadic attacks continue in Iraq more than a month after the country held its landmark parliamentary election which is widely expected to shape the political landscape of the war-torn country.
(Source: iStockAnalyst )
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