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Iraq
Up to 20 Iraqis wounded in Baghdad double explosion
2006-10-09
(KUNA) -- Up to 20 Iraqis were wounded on Sunday, including four policemen, in a double explosion that took place simultaneously in central Baghdad, an Iraqi police source said. The source told reporters that the first explosion took place in Victory Square, followed by a second in the same area.
“In Kirkuk, Lieutenant Colonel Khalil Al-Zoba'i of the Iraqi Army said 184 suspects had been arrested in search operations in the city, as well as a woman and five men of Syrian and Palestinian nationalities.”
Moreover, the source said the body of Interior Ministry Colonel Thamer Salman was found shot dead in an Iraqi patrol vehicle in Al-Fadhil district in Baghdad. He also said that an explosion near the Mustansiriya University wounded six people. Another source told reporters that the bodies of 15 Iraqis were found in different areas of the capital, all of whom had been shot dead.

Meanwhile, the US Army said in a statement that a soldier had been killed in northern Iraq yesterday when an explosive device blew up. And in Kirkuk, Lieutenant Colonel Khalil Al-Zoba'i of the Iraqi Army said 184 suspects had been arrested in search operations in the city, as well as a woman and five men of Syrian and Palestinian nationalities.
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