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| Eight dead in north Iraq attacks |
| 2012-09-05 |
| [Daily Nation (Kenya)] Bombings and shootings in northern Iraq, mostly targeting security forces, left eight people dead on Tuesday, including six soldiers and a police general, security and medical officials said. In the deadliest attack, two near-simultaneous roadside kabooms detonated as a military convoy was passing along the road between the town of Tuz Khurmatu, 175 kilometres (110 miles) north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , and nearby Al-Adhaim. The blasts killed six soldiers and maimed two others, according to a military intelligence officer and Dr. Mehdi Abdullah al-Bayati of Tuz Khurmatu hospital. In the ethnically-mixed northern city of Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... gunnies killed a police adviser to the provincial council and maimed two of his bodyguards while they were in a shop, a police official and Sadiq Omar Rasul, head of the provincial health department, said. Major General Adnan al-Bayati died instantly when the attackers opened fire with machine guns, and his bodyguards were seriously maimed, the officials said. Just northwest of Kirkuk, authorities found the mutilated corpse of a teenage boy, who police believe was killed earlier on Tuesday, according to Colonel Othman Hama Amin, a local police chief. Ali Mohammed Ali, whose identity papers listed him as a 16-year-old Arab, was found with his hands, feet and head cut off, and with two gunshot wounds to his body. Tuesday's violence came two days after two kabooms against security forces killed four -- two coppers and two soldiers -- in Tuz Khurmatu and the northern city of Kirkuk. |
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