A bombing and a shooting against a police patrol and a city council member in Iraq killed four people and maimed four others yesterday [Friday], security and medical officials said."Three coppers were killed and two others maimed by a bomb targeting their patrol in Al-Muqdadiyah this morning," said a police lieutenant colonel in the town, which lies in restive Diyala province.
And just outside the city of Haditha, in Anbar province northwest of the capital, city councilman Nabil Shaaker was killed and two of his brothers maimed when gunnies fired on their car, according to a police lieutenant colonel and doctor Dr Omar Adil at the city's hospital.