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| Iraq |
| 3 civilians, 7 police killed in attacks |
| 2011-07-04 |
| RAMADI, Iraq — Seven policemen and three civilians were killed in a drive-by shooting and other attacks in Iraq on Sunday, police and interior ministry officials said. ‘At 8:30 am (0530 GMT), gunmen riding in a car and carrying automatic weapons killed five policemen guarding a checkpoint, before fleeing,’ said a police officer in the Anbar provincial capital of Ramadi, west of Baghdad. He said the gunmen struck in the desert town of Rutbah, on the main highway leading from Baghdad towards Amman and Damascus. Another policemen was killed by a gunman using a silencer in west Baghdad, while in the capital’s centre a magnetic ‘sticky bomb’ that attaches to vehicles killed two civilians, an interior ministry official said. Meanwhile, in the main northern city of Mosul, gunmen killed one policeman and wounded a second, police said. And in the northern oil hub of Kirkuk, a roadside bomb killed a civilian and wounded another, police said. |
| Posted by:Steve White |