Up to 13 Iraqis were injured with mortar rounds fired at a number of houses and shops in Abu Dasheer neighborhood in Baghdad on Tuesday. A source of the Iraqi Interior Ministry told KUNA that the attack caused extensive damage to houses and shops in a popular market.Meanwhile, unidentified militants shot and killed, Tuesday, the prayer caller of Al-Rahman mosque in Jalola district near the town of Baaquba, a source from the Joint Coordination Center said in a press release. It added that an Iraqi civilian was injured in a bomb explosion in Bab Al-Darb district and two children were injured in Al-Tahreer district south of Baaquba after a bomb exploded in front of their home. The statement also said a woman was injured in an explosion in Bani Saad town near Baaquba and that militants blew up a bridge in Al-Moalimeen district, injuring two people.
US Army announced Tuesday that a militant was killed and 23 suspects were arrested in a raid Monday north of Ramadi. It said in a press release that Coalition Forces arrested terrorists who used a building of an elementary school for training on bombs and suicide attacks.
The statement emphasized that the forces found a large cache of weapons, stressing that no one of the civilians who were in the place of the incident was hurt in the raid.