BAGHDAD - At least 10 Iraqis, including one army officer and one police officer, were killed in attacks in Baquba, 60 kilometres north-east of Baghdad Saturday, said a security source. The source told Deutsche Presse-Agentur DPA that gunmen travelling in a car fired at police captain Nouri al-Anbaki near a marketplace in the Mafraq district of Baquba. The police officer was killed in the attack.In a separate incident, gunmen opened fire on a market in central Baquba killing three Iraqi civilians. Meanwhile a captain in the Iraqi army officer was shot dead by gunmen while he was on his way to a central Baquba market. Another Iraqi civilian was shot dead in the Moalemeen district at the outskirts of Baquba.
In a further incident, another group of unidentified gunmen kidnapped and killed four civilians from the village of Ain Leila near Baquba. The kidnap victims were located two hours later - with their hands bound, blindfolded, and with fatal bullet wounds in their heads.