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| 5 Killed, including Prison Commander, in Iraq Violence |
| 2010-11-16 |
| [An Nahar] Violence across Iraq on Monday killed five people, including a senior prison official at a jail in the restive north of the country, and maimed 28, security officials said. In the town of Badoush, just outside the main northern city of djinn-infested Mosul, two car booms at the residential compound for Badoush prison security guards killed two and maimed 16, police Major Khalid Jamal al-Din said. "Two car booms detonated today (Monday) at around 9:00 am (0600 GMT) in a residential compound for prison security guards in Badoush," Din told AFP. "Among the dead was Lieutenant Colonel Hussein Khalaf, the head of the prison's emergency response team, and another civilian working in the prison." The kabooms maimed 11 prison guards and five civilians, Din added. On March 6, 2007, gunnies launched a major attack on the same jail, in Nineveh province north of Storied Baghdad, and liberated 140 prisoners. Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... in town of Qaim on the Syrian border some 340 kilometers (210 miles) west of Baghdad, two people were killed and five others maimed by two roadside kabooms, including one in a market, Lieutenant Ali Shaker of Anbar province's police said. And in Baghdad, a policeman was killed and seven people were maimed, including three coppers, by two separate roadside kabooms against police patrols in the centre and east of the capital, an interior ministry official said, speaking . |
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