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Twin roadside bombs strike Baghdad
A series of bomb blasts across Baghdad killed six people and injured more than 20 others on Thursday, police said, in the fourth consecutive day of heightened violence in the Iraqi capital.
- AP
- Published: 12:11 November 6, 2008
Baghdad: A series of bomb blasts across Baghdad killed six people and injured more than 20 others on Thursday, police said, in the fourth consecutive day of heightened violence in the Iraqi capital.
The deadliest attack in a bloody week came on Thursday near a checkpoint in central Baghdad when two bombs exploded during the morning rush hour, police said. Four people were killed and seven wounded.
The twin blasts in the capital's Sunni enclave of Shaikh Omar occurred at a checkpoint manned by members of an Awakening Council, the mostly Sunni groups that have joined forces with the Americans against Al Qaida in Iraq. Two Awakening Council members were killed in the attack.
Another pair of Awakening Council members was killed in a bombing just before noon in southeastern Baghdad. The councils come under frequent attacks by insurgents because they have sided with US forces.
Roadside bombs targeting two separate convoys carrying Baghdad city officials injured eight people, the mayor's office said in a statement. The municipal officials were not hurt in the attacks.
Another roadside bomb wounded nine people in Baghdad's sprawling Shiite slum of Sadr City, police said.
Also Thursday, in the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk, 290 kilometres north of Baghdad, police found the bullet-riddled body of a man, believed to be in his late 40s.
Police said the man had bullets wounds in his head and chest, and that his body bore signs of torture.
The Iraqi officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to release information to the media.
Elsewhere, the US military said a helicopter gunship killed two suspected terrorists on Wednesday near the northern city of Mosul after the men opened fire on the helicopter from their car. The military said one of the men was a suspected local leader of Al Qaida in Iraq.
The Iraqi police chief in the area, Brig. Gen. Waad-Allah Selki, said US troops also captured two other suspects who were in the car.
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