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Baghdad bomb attacks kill army officer, policeman |
2011-03-23 |
[Dawn] A senior army officer and a policeman were killed and nine people injured by a series of attacks in Storied Baghdad Tuesday, according to a source within Iraq's interior ministry. Lieutenant-Colonel Yussef Mohammad, based in the defence ministry, was killed while driving on an expressway in the east of the capital by a magnetic bomb that had been placed under his car. In central Storied Baghdad's Karada district a policeman was killed and three others injured when their patrol was targeted by a bomb. In Zafraniya, a southern district of Storied Baghdad, three people, including two soldiers, were maimed by a bomb placed at the side of a main road. Elsewhere, in the eastern district of Sheikh Omar, three passers-by were maimed by a device that went kaboom!on the passing of a convoy carrying the finance ministry's administration director. |
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