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Iraq
Bombings Bag Bodies in Baghdad
2015-02-01
Baghdad -- A series of bombings in and around the Iraqi capital killed nine people on Saturday. A bomb exploded near a sheep market on Saturday morning in the town of Madain, about 20 kilometres southeast of Baghdad, killing four people and wounding 11, police officials said.

A second blast struck near a string of car repair shops in central Baghdad, killing three people and wounding 10. Authorities said another explosion also struck an army patrol in the town of Taji, just north of Baghdad, killing two soldiers and wounding four. Medics confirmed the casualty figures.

Meanwhile, two Kurdish security officers said on Saturday that Kurdish Brig.-Gen. Hussein Mansour was killed on Friday night by a sniper shot near the oil rich city of Kirkuk during clashes between Daesh fighters and Kurdish security forces.

The two officials said that Mansour has just replaced Brig.-Gen. Shirko Fatih, who was killed early on Friday after Daesh militants attacked peshmerga fighters’ positions near Kirkuk.
Iraqi News adds this detail:
The website of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) cited "The Colonel, Hussein Mansour, the Commander of the 5th Brigade within the Kurdish Peshmerga Forces was killed by a sniper while fighting the ISIL murderous Moslems in Mulla Abdullah area in Kirkuk."
Posted by:Steve White

#1  Boffo!
Posted by: Shipman   2015-02-01 05:22