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| Iraq |
| 18 killed, 36 wounded in Iraq as of Sunday noon |
| 2008-06-02 |
| (VOI) – Eighteen people were killed and 36 others wounded while security forces arrested 48 people in acts of violence in different areas of Iraq from 9:00 p.m. on Saturday until Sunday noon, security sources said. In Baghdad a security source said a car bomb parked near the Iranian embassy headquarters in the central Baghdad area of al-Salihiya went off on Sunday morning, killing two civilians and wounding five others. "Four civilians were wounded when an improvised explosive device emplaced by unidentified gunmen inside a civilian vehicle went off in al-Tashri'e neighborhood, western Baghdad," Maj. General Qassem Atta, the spokesman for the Fardh al-Qanoon (Law Imposing) security plan, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI). Atta also said another IED went off a short while later in the area of al-Ghazali, al-Nahda neighborhood, central Baghdad, when a traffic police patrol was passing by, leaving four patrol men wounded. In the predominantly Sunni province of al-Anbar, a Hit police source said a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest near an Iraqi police checkpoint on Saturday evening, killing 14, including Lt. Colonel Khalil Ibrahim Jazzaa al-Dulaimi of the city police, and three policemen others, and wounding 10 civilians. In Diala a police source said clashes broke out between security men and members of the anti-al-Qaeda Sahwa (Awakening) tribal fighters, leaving one child killed and three other civilians wounded in al-Mafraq neighborhood, Baaquba district. In another part of Diala, a security source said a woman was killed when a roadside IED went off in al-Katoun neighborhood, central Baaquba, on Sunday. In Kirkuk, 250 km northeast of Baghdad, an IED went off near an Emergency Police patrol, close to the College of Sciences, leaving six patrol men and two civilians wounded. In Salah al-Din, an Iraqi police patrol came under firing attack by unidentified gunmen in the village of Sheikh Hamad, on the left coast of al-Shurqat district, prompting the security forces to launch a massive raid in the village, arresting 70 suspects. Meanwhile, the U.S. army said it arrested four men wanted by security authorities for links with al-Qaeda network in Baghdad, in addition to 10 suspects, in a security raid in different areas of Iraq. In a statement on Sunday, the U.S. army said two servicemen were wounded when their chopper crashed during an early hour of Sunday morning south of Baghdad. |
| Posted by:Fred |