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| 24 Iraqis killed, scores injured in attacks |
| 2004-06-06 |
| Twenty-four Iraqis were killed and many injured in the violence-wracked country on Saturday and Sunday. Thirteen policemen were killed and 10 wounded in a gun and bomb attack on a police station in Musayyib, 50 kilometres south of Baghdad, medical sources and the US military said on Sunday. âWe received 11 corpses and two others were sent to Hilla, just north of Mussayib,â said Dr Bashir Hussein at the local hospital. âAll the bodies were horribly charred and mutilated,â he said. The US military said militants attacked the police station at 4:20pm (1220 GMT) on Saturday with small arms fire and lobbed a bag of explosives that demolished the buildingâs facade. Later on Sunday, militants detonated a car bomb outside an Iraqi-US base at Taji, just north of Baghdad, killing nine people and wounding 61 others as attacks intensified ahead of the formal end of the US-led occupation on June 30. A statement purported to be from a group headed by Islamist militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for the car bombing, describing it as a suicide attack. Two Iraqis were killed in the accidental firing of RPGs from the old regime in the central city of Kut on Sunday, an Iraqi paramilitary commander said. |
| Posted by:Fred |