Separate bomb and gun attacks yesterday killed five Iraqi coppers and maimed 17 other people in Storied Baghdad...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
and Baquba, north of the capital, security officials said.
In Storied Baghdad's western Mansur district, a roadside kaboom killed two coppers, including a captain, an interior ministry official said. Eight people were also maimed, among them four coppers, he said.
"The kaboom happened when the police went to check on an earlier kaboom outside a liquor shop which had inflicted no casualties," the official said.
June was the deadliest month in Iraq so far this year, with 271 people killed in attacks including 155 civilians, 77 coppers and 39 soldiers, according to a government count.