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Car bomber kills Iraq police recruits
 At least 16 people have been killed in Iraq, including seven police recruits blown up by a car bomber as they travelled on a bus. The recruits, who had just joined the force, were killed on Monday when the car bomber rammed his car into their bus near Baquba, north of Baghdad, as they travelled to the Kurdish northern region for training. Thirteen other recruits were wounded. At least eight more Iraqis were killed by machine gun fire in attacks elsewhere in the country, including children in a car. And an ambulance driver was shot through the head as he drove to a hospital in Kirkuk, security officials said. The children, two boys aged 7 and 10, died in the drive-by shooting when armed men targeted their parents' car south of Kirkuk. The parents were wounded. Three more men were shot and killed while travelling in a car just south of Baghdad, near Iskandariya. Two Iraqi soldiers died when their patrol was hit by a roadside bomb near Dujail, north of Baghdad. Another soldier was killed and an officer wounded in a drive-by shooting on the road between Baiji and Tikrit. Posted by: Fred 2006-01-03 |
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