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Bomb blasts kill three people in northern Iraq

Two bombs killed at least three people and wounded 12 in attacks on an Iraqi army patrol and a police convoy in northern Iraq on Friday, Defence and Interior Ministry officials said.

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  • Published: 23:16 July 18, 2008
  • Gulf News

Baghdad: Two bombs killed at least three people and wounded 12 in attacks on an Iraqi army patrol and a police convoy in northern Iraq on Friday, Defence and Interior Ministry officials said.

Two of the dead were Iraqi soldiers hit by a car bomb near Mosul. Eight more soldiers were wounded in the blast.

In the other attack, one man died when a home-made mine targeting a police convoy exploded near the northern city of Kirkuk.

Four people were wounded in the explosion targeting the vehicles charged with protecting oil installations near the city.

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