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| Iraq |
| Baghdad unrest kills five, wounds 14 |
| 2010-06-29 |
| BAGHDAD - Attacks in the Iraqi capital Baghdad killed two women civilians and an intelligence officer on Monday, while two policemen died trying to defuse a bomb, medical and security sources said. Several unidentified gunmen stormed into a house in the Sunni Arab Dora district of south Baghdad, killing the two women in an attack that also wounded four other people, two of them women, police said. In the Harthiya district in the west of the capital, a magnetic bomb attached to the car of an intelligence officer killed its target and wounded four civilian bystanders, the interior ministry said. In the city centre, two policemen died and four others were injured as they tried to defuse a roadside bomb on Sheikh Omar Street, police and medical officials said. Another two people were wounded when a magnetic bomb exploded in Karrada, a busy commercial district of the capital. |
| Posted by:Steve White |