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| Iraq |
| Policeman killed, 18 wounded in Diyala car bomb |
| 2008-07-02 |
| (VOI) – One policeman was killed and 18 others, including eight policemen, injured in a car bomb explosion that targeted a checkpoint northeast of Baaquba city on Tuesday, police said. "A car bomb went off at 1:00 a.m. near a police checkpoint in the village of al-Nadah, Khanaqin district, (155 km) northeast of Baaquba, killing one policeman and wounding 18 others, including eight policemen," a security source, who asked not to be named, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI). On Tuesday a police source in Diala said three people of the same family were killed and another wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off near their house south of Baaquba. "The IED went off near a house in the village of Abi Fayyad, Buhrez district, (5 km) south of Baaquba, killing three brothers and severely wounding their father," the source, who asked not to be named, told VOI. |
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