Five people were killed and 22 others injured when a bomb exploded in a car parking in the Cairo district of Baghdad. A security source told KUNA that four Iraqi policemen are among the injured and that the explosion caused major damage in a number of civilian cars and a police vehicle. Eyewitnesses said the number of victims was high because the bomb was close to a small cafe where drivers gathered every morning.Meanwhile two US soldiers were injured when a bomb exploded as they passed by in Al-Qadisiya district in Baghdad. Two Iraqi civilians were injured in the same incident, Iraqi police said.
In Irbil, an Iraqi policeman was gunned down and six civilians were wounded in a drive-by shooting.
A source from the Iraqi Police in Kirkuk told KUNA that a bomb exploded in Al-Qadisiya district near a Multi-National Forces (MNF) patrol without causing any damage.
Another bomb exploded at the passage of another MNF convey in the industrial district. No reports on casualties or damage were available.
Meanwhile, head of the de-Baathification institution, Ali Faisal Al-Lamy, told KUNA that a number of officials in the Interior and Defense Ministries were forced out according to the de-Baathification laws.