(Xinhua) -- Two non-combatants were killed and nine others maimed when a bomb exploded on Friday in northern Iraq, a local police source said.The attack occured in the city of Hawija, 200 km north of Storied Baghdad, when a cycle of violence went kaboom as a police patrol passed by, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
"Two non-combatants were killed, 8 civilians and one police were maimed in the kaboom," he added.
The police has cordoned off the area after the deadly attack, the source said, while ambulances rushed the maimed to the nearby hospital in the city.
Violence and sporadic high-profile attacks are still common in Iraqi cities as part of recent deterioration in security which shaped a setback to the efforts of the Iraqi government to restore normality in the country more than six months after violence-torn Iraq held parliamentary elections on March 7.
They'd have a better chance at that if they had an actual government.
U.S. forces formally ended combat operations September 1, cutting the U.S. military force from just under 90,000 to 50,000. However,
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some local analysts still worry about whether the Iraqi forces are ready to replace the American soldiers amid continued turban attacks.