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Four Dead in Attacks North of Baghdad
[An Nahar] Attacks north of Storied Baghdad...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , including a suicide kaboom at a government building and the detonation of a booby-trapped corpse, killed four people Saturday, part of a months-long surge in violence. The unrest has left more than 3,900 people dead already this year, and sparked concerns Iraq is slipping back into the all-out sectarian war that plagued it in 2006 and 2007 and left tens of thousands dead. Shootings and bombings stuck the main northern city of djinn-infested Mosul, as well as Baquba, Taji and Tuz Khurmatu, all north of the capital, leaving four dead and nine others maimed overall, according to security and medical officials. In Taji, a jacket wallah tried to enter the town mayoralty offices but went kaboom!at the gates to the building when police opened fire on him. The blast killed a policeman and maimed four others. In djinn-infested Mosul, meanwhile, a police major was killed when security forces approached a corpse that had been booby-trapped with explosives. In Tuz Khurmatu and Baquba, gunnies assassinated a finance ministry official and a district chief respectively. Posted by: Fred 2013-09-08 |
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