A suspected Iraqi insurgent on Saturday hurled a hand-grenade on a patrol of the Iraqi Army in the town of Falluja in the western Al-Anbar provice killing four troops, a security source said. The source said three troops were wounded and were taken to hospital for treatment. The attacker fled the scene and disappeared.On a road northeast of Baghdad, two gunmen died when explosives they were trying to set blew up accidentally. A security authority, the joint coordination bureau, said in a statement that the pair died in the accidential blast that occured on the side of a road in the town of Al-Muqtadiah, Diyali province.
Meanwhile, the Multi-National Forces, in a statement, said an Iraqi died on Thursday as a result of a heart attack while being detained in the southern sector of the Iraqi capital. The 65-year old man passed away when Iraqi regulars and American troops burst into his house, it said, adding that the troops gave him medical treatment to no avail.
On Saturday, Iraqi security men arrested seven militants in a search and inspection operation south of Baghdad. An Iraqi police source said in a press statement that Babil police stormed into a stronghold in the early hours of Saturday in the towns of Iskandariyah and Jurf as Sakhr in the Babil province south of Baghdad. The operation resulted in the arrest of seven militants and the confiscation of large amounts of weapons and explosives, the source added.