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| Bombings and other attacks kill 25 across Iraq |
| 2013-09-26 |
| [USATODAY] Militants assaulted a government building in northern Iraq and launched other attacks that killed 25 people Wednesday, the latest episode of deadly violence to hit the country, officials said. The bloodiest incident was a brazen assault on the local council building in the northern town of Hawija. The attackers detonated three boom-mobiles before engaging security forces in an hour-long firefight, the commander of the army's 12th Division, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Khalaf told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named by telephone. Khalaf said at least one of the boom-mobiles was driven by a suicide kaboomer. He put the corpse count at seven civilians and two soldiers in addition to 21 others maimed. Four bully boyz were killed while the rest fled, he added. Hawija, a former bully boy stronghold, is about 150 miles north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... . It was the site of a bloody April crackdown by security forces on a Sunni protest camp that set off the current surge of violence, in which over 4,000 people have died. The attack came a day after security forces foiled an attempt by bully boyz to take over a Sunni town near the Syrian border. Eleven people were killed there, including six attackers. Earlier in the day in Storied Baghdad's northern Shaab neighborhood, gunnies armed with weapons fitted with silencers broke into the house of an Interior Ministry employee, killing him, his wife, mother-in-law and three children, a police officer said. The children were aged three, six and eight years old, he added. Police said they did not know the motive behind the killings, but bully boyz often target government officials and their families in a bid to undermine confidence in the government. In another attack, gunnies ambushed off-duty soldiers traveling through the town of Taji, about 12 miles north of the Iraqi capital, opening fire on their car and killing two, another police officer said. Three others were maimed, he added. At night, a bomb went kaboom!near a market in the northern city of djinn-infested Mosul, killing three people and wounding 23 others, said police. And in Storied Baghdad, a boom-mobile blast on a commercial street in a western district killed five and maimed others, police said. Medical officials confirmed the casualty figures for all attacks. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to release information. |
| Posted by:Fred |