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| Iraq attacks kill 14, injure dozens |
| 2014-05-13 |
| [Iran Press TV] At least fourteen people have been killed and dozens of others injured in a series of attacks in Iraq, security and hospital officials say. Iraqi police officials said on Monday that two Iraqi soldiers bit the dust and five others suffered injuries after unidentified gunnies opened fire on an army checkpoint in Latifyah town, about 30 kilometers south of the Iraqi capital Storied Baghdad. Elsewhere, in a mortar attack in the town of Yusufiya, about 20 kilometers south of the capital, an Iraqi citizen was killed and seven others were maimed. In Jurf al-Sakhar, about 60 kilometers south of Storied Baghdad, two coppers were killed while they were trying to defuse a bomb. In the town of Madain, south of the Iraqi capital, unidentified gunnies opened fire on people in the street, killing two people. Iraqi police also said that three soldiers were killed and five others were maimed after a roadside kaboom kaboom hit a military convoy near Tarmiyah town, 50 kilometers north of Storied Baghdad. Four more people were also killed and 17 others were maimed in a boom-mobile blast in a commercial street in Storied Baghdad's district of Shaab, Iraqi police said. Iraqi medical officials also confirmed the casualties. |
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