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| Iraq |
| Five killed in blasts south of Baghdad |
| 2011-02-08 |
| [Emirates 24/7] Two roadside kabooms on Monday in a Sunni Arab town south of the Iraqi capital killed five people, including three soldiers, local police said. The three soldiers were killed by a bomb near their patrol in Iskandiriyah, 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Storied Baghdad, a police officer in the Babil lovely provincial capital of Hilla said. Among the dead was an army captain. Another roadside kaboom in a Iskandiriyah market also killed two people, including a woman, the officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity. ... for fear of being murdered... Iskandiriyah lies within a confessionally mixed region known as the "Triangle of Death" because of the frequency of Islamic myrmidon attacks during the worst of Iraq's insurgency after the 2003 US-led invasion. While violence is down across Iraq since its 2006-2007 peak, attacks remain common. Government figures show that 259 people -- 159 civilians, 55 coppers and 45 soldiers -- died in violence in January. |
| Posted by:Fred |