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| Iraq |
| Spate of kabooms hits Diyala |
| 2012-03-20 |
| BAQUBA, Iraq: Bombers struck five times in a province north of Baghdad yesterday evening, killing at least three people and wounding more than 30, police said. Diyala province, a fertile agricultural region criss-crossed by canals where Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds live side by side, has long been one of the most volatile areas in Iraq. MondayÂ’s bombings all took place after sunset in the provincial capital Baquba or towns and villages to the east. A car bomb in the town of Balad Ruz, in a district occupied mainly by Shiite Kurds, killed one person and wounded 12 including four children police said. Balad Ruz is about 20 km east of Baquba. A roadside bomb near a police station in Baquba wounded four policemen and 12 civilians, and another explosion 10 km to the east wounded three civilians. Two bombs stuck to cars killed the drivers of the vehicles, one in Baquba and the other in a village 25 km to the east. |
| Posted by:Steve White |