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| Iraq |
| Iraqi violence kills nine people |
| 2011-03-29 |
| [Emirates 24/7] Improvised bombs killed an army officer and policeman south of Storied Baghdad on Monday, and gunnies overnight killed six women and a man in north Iraq, police and medical sources said. "An army officer and policeman were killed by a roadside kaboom that targeted their patrol in the city of Mussayib" 60 kilometres (37 miles) south of Storied Baghdad, a police chief told AFP. "Sixteen people were also maimed, among them three soldiers and two coppers, by roadside kabooms in Mussayib and in different parts of Storied Baghdad," he said. Overnight, gunnies stormed into a notorious and poor district of the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul, killing six women and a man, police and medical sources said. "Six women and one man were killed last night by gunnies who stormed into a home in Al-Tanak neighbourhood of djinn-infested Mosul," a police major told AFP of a poor district known as a location for brothels, which are illegal in Iraq. A source at Al-djinn-infested Mosul hospital confirmed that the bodies of six women and a man had been received. He said the women were aged between 20 and 40. djinn-infested Mosul's Nineveh province is home to armed Islamic groups, some related to Al-Qaeda. Violence in Iraq has fallen since its peak in 2006-2007, but bombings, gun attacks and kidnappings are still routine. |
| Posted by:Fred |