27 people killed in Iraq violence
Afp, Baghdad
Insurgents killed at least 27 people in Iraq yesterday, including six in a car bomb attack against a US convoy in Baghdad, security officials said. The car bomb attack in the Iraqi capital's upscale Mansur neighbourhood left another 15 people wounded. A roadside bomb blast targeting a police patrol near Baghdad's University of Technology killed a policeman and a civilian. Another officer and six other bystanders were wounded. Gunmen also shot dead a policeman in Baghdad, where insurgents have managed to carry out a series of large-scale attacks despite a security crackdown since mid-June. Northeast of the capital in the country's restive Diyala province, 11 people were killed in a string of bombings and shootings. In the deadliest of the attacks, four people were killed and 24 others wounded when a bomb exploded near a shop in the town of Muqdadiyah. A separate bomb attack also killed Brigadier General Ali Hassan Jubur, head of operations in Muqdadiyah's police headquarters, police said. He was killed in Abu Sayda, near Baquba, the provincial capital, as he left his home for work. The other casualties were civilians, all killed in different shooting attacks in the town of Khalis, the Al-Tahrir neighbourhood of Baquba and at a market in Baquba. Police also found three bodies in the province on Tuesday. An ethnically mixed province, Diyala is one of the most violent regions in Iraq with dozens killed every week in bombings and shootings. In the northern city of Mosul, a police captain was shot dead as he was driving in his car. In the town of Samarra, 125km north of Baghdad, four people were shot dead by gunmen in the town's industrial zone. Also southwest of Samarra, a policeman was killed and another wounded when a roadside bomb hit their patrol. Near the northern oil city of Kirkuk, an Iraqi soldier was killed and three others wounded when a roadside bomb struck their convoy. Also in Kirkuk, police arrested a wanted insurgent from a local hospital and his interrogation led to arrest of another two policemen suspected of links with insurgent activities, police said. Police found 15 bodies of men shot to death across Iraq, including the three in Diyala province.
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