12 die in Iraq attacks
A trash collector and the head of security for Baghdad University died in separate drive-by shootings today as a string of attacks nationwide left a dozen people dead, police said.
The attack against the trash collector, a Shiite, took place early Thursday in western Baghdad, police Capt. Jamil Hussein said, according to the AP. Armed men in a civilian car also stopped a car carrying Kadhim Challoub, who was in charge of the guards at Baghdad University, ordered his driver and his guard out, then killed the security chief on the eastern side of the capital, according to police Lt. Mohammad Khayoun.
He also said a roadside bomb aimed at a police patrol missed its target but killed one civilian and wounded another in northern Baghdad.
Two merchants were shot dead near the civil defense office as they were waiting for a car to take them to work in the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Sadiyah in southwestern Baghdad, Hussein said.
Elsewhere in the Iraqi capital, according to police, a baker died when a bomb went off near his workplace in Dora, and an electrical worker died while he was heading to work in a predominantly Sunni area of western Baghdad.
A bomb exploded in southern Baghdad as well, killing a woman and injuring her three sons as they were in their car, police Lt. Maitham Abdul-Razzaq said.
Police also found the body a man who had been blindfolded, handcuffed and shot in the head in western Baghdad.
Gunmen on a motorcycle also killed a policeman and attackers firing from a car shot to death a 34-year-old man working in a construction equipment shop in separate attacks in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, local health official Abdul-Salam al-Zamily said.
Iraqi police in the northern city of Kirkuk found the body of a 15-year-old girl who had been kidnapped five days ago, Brig. Sarhat Qadir said.
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The attack against the trash collector, a Shiite, took place early Thursday in western Baghdad, police Capt. Jamil Hussein said, according to the AP. Armed men in a civilian car also stopped a car carrying Kadhim Challoub, who was in charge of the guards at Baghdad University, ordered his driver and his guard out, then killed the security chief on the eastern side of the capital, according to police Lt. Mohammad Khayoun.
He also said a roadside bomb aimed at a police patrol missed its target but killed one civilian and wounded another in northern Baghdad.
Two merchants were shot dead near the civil defense office as they were waiting for a car to take them to work in the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Sadiyah in southwestern Baghdad, Hussein said.
Elsewhere in the Iraqi capital, according to police, a baker died when a bomb went off near his workplace in Dora, and an electrical worker died while he was heading to work in a predominantly Sunni area of western Baghdad.
A bomb exploded in southern Baghdad as well, killing a woman and injuring her three sons as they were in their car, police Lt. Maitham Abdul-Razzaq said.
Police also found the body a man who had been blindfolded, handcuffed and shot in the head in western Baghdad.
Gunmen on a motorcycle also killed a policeman and attackers firing from a car shot to death a 34-year-old man working in a construction equipment shop in separate attacks in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, local health official Abdul-Salam al-Zamily said.
Iraqi police in the northern city of Kirkuk found the body of a 15-year-old girl who had been kidnapped five days ago, Brig. Sarhat Qadir said.
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posted by Subrosa at Thursday, June 29, 2006
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