Three Iraqi civilians were wounded on Wednesday in Kirkuk, northern Iraq. Iraqi police sources in Kirkuk told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that an explosive device blew up nearby a gas station in central kirkuk, wounding a woman while in her residence. A similar attack took place on a road in western Kirkuk that targeted a civilian vehicle, wounding two Iraqi citizens.Also, the source said that four Katyusha missiles hit a US military base. Iraqi police patrols headed to the source of fire and found four bases used for launching missiles.
Meanwhile, unknown gunmen assassinated the Director of Information and Relations in the Iraqi Defense Ministry Mohammad Al-Ameri in western Baghdad. A security source in the Ministry of Interior told KUNA that Al-Ameri was showered with bullets while driving his car to work. He was killed on the spot, while the attackers managed to escape. In two similar incidents, unknown gunmen assassinated a Ministry of Finance employee in Shu'lah neighborhood in northwestern Baghdad, while other gunmen assassinated a high ranking criminal intelligence official and two of his bodyguards in Baquba, northeast of Baghdad.
Also, an Iraqi police source told reporters that an Iraqi soldier was killed and two were wounded, while a military vehicle was damaged when a road-side bomb blew up targeting an Iraqi Army patrol in Alawiyah area in Baghdad.
Meanwhile, the Iraqi Defense Ministry announced that the Iraqi Army killed three gunmen and detained 64 others in several operations in Iraq. The ministry said in a press release that the Iraqi Army arrested 33 gunmen in Naynawa Province, northern Iraq, most of them from Talafar area nearby the Syrian-Iraqi borders. It added that a gunman was killed and 10 others were arrested in Salahuddine Province in northern Baghdad, noting that weapons caches and explosives were seized in the operation. The press release noted that 20 gunmen were arrested in several operations in the areas of Doura, Dawreyen, and Adhamiyah, while two gunmen were killed in Baghdad. A gunman was also arrested in Anbar Province in western Iraq.