(KUNA) -- Three members of the Iraqi army and police were killed on Monday and four others wounded when a booby-trapped car driven by an insurgent exploded near a joint police and army patrol in Al-Baaj district west of Mosul in north of Iraq.Furthermore, Iraqi police source in Mosul told KUNA that unidentified gunmen assassinated today head of the sciences department in the Faculty of Medicine Dr. Ahmad Al-Taei.
Director of Joint Coordination in the Mosul Police said that the security authorities had found 47 corpses including 25 that were fetched in the city's eastern sector. Eleven corpses were found in the other part of the city while six others were fetched in various parts of the city.
In other developments, spokesman of the US army General William Caldwel said the security forces in Iraq had been able since the beginning of this year to kill and arrest more than 1,000 foreign insurgents. Speaking at a news conference, Caldwel said that 425 foreign fighters were killed and 670 others arrested including some who carried Syrian, Sudanese, Egyptian and Saudi nationalities. He added that 50 to 60 foreign fighters infiltrate into Iraq across the Iraqi-Syrian borders.
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