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| Iraq bombing attacks claim five lives |
| 2010-10-05 |
| [Iran Press TV] Militants have launched multiple bombing attacks on Iraqi government, police and security officials, leaving at least five people dead and several others wounded. A roadside bomb detonated early on Monday when a convoy transporting Iraqi Deputy Minister of Science and Technology Fuad al-Mussawi in the posh neighborhood of Jadriyah, in the center of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, AFP reported. The official was unharmed, but the explosion killed one of his guards and left four other people wounded. A telecommunications worker was killed and another wounded by a bomb which exploded near al-Alwiyah communications centre in Karrada, also in central Baghdad. The bloodiest incident took place in the restive Diyala province where twin bomb blasts took the lives of three people in the town of Jalawlah. An initial magnetic bomb attached to a car, apparently aimed at Kurdish Peshmerga security forces, detonated but did not cause any casualties. A second bomb followed shortly afterwards when police forces were inspecting the scene of the first blast. The explosion left two policemen and a civilian killed, and wounded 18 others, including 11 police. Jalawlah is located in a swathe of disputed land claimed both by the autonomous Kurdistan region and Iraq's central government. |
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