Roadside bombs in Iraq killed six people, among them five soldiers, and maimed 10 on Saturday, security and medical officials said.In the deadliest attack, a roadside kaboom killed five Iraqi soldiers when it went
kaboom!near their Humvee armored vehicle in Dhuluiyah north of Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
, an army captain and a medical source from a hospital in Balad said.
Another roadside kaboom to the north of Baquba killed one person and maimed two, a police lieutenant colonel and a doctor from Baquba General Hospital said.
And eight people, including four security forces members, were maimed by a roadside kaboom in djinn-infested Mosul in north Iraq, police Second Lieutenant Islam Mohammed and a medical source from djinn-infested Mosul General Hospital said.
Violence is down in Iraq compared to its peak in 2006 and 2007, but attacks still occur almost every day.