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| Iraq |
| Violence continues to surge in Iraq |
| 2009-07-07 |
| [Iran Press TV Latest] At least fourteen people have been injured in a fresh wave of bomb attacks which has plagued Iraq's third largest city, Mosul. The fourteen were wounded on Monday as a car bomb attack targeted a police vehicle patrol at Wadi Hajar district in the southern part of the city. Three policemen were among the wounded, according to a security source speaking on condition of anonymity. Meanwhile, a traffic officer was injured on Monday, when unidentified armed men opened fire on him in Mosul. A local police official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Voices of Iraq news agency that Brigadier Safaaldin Mahmoud from Nineveh's traffic police department was wounded while on duty at al-Darkziya district in the eastern part of the disrupted northern Iraqi city. Elsewhere on Monday, a civilian was killed when gunmen shot him dead in Tamouz district in western Mosul. The assailants fled the scene after the fatal incident, witnesses said. Mosul and its surrounding areas remain the scenes of constant bombings and havens for the al-Qaeda-linked insurgents in the war-wracked Iraq. Mosul, the capital city of Iraq's Nineveh province, is situated some 396 km (250 miles) northwest of Baghdad. Also on Monday, Iraqi security forces claimed that they had arrested two prominent al-Qaeda members during a raid on several houses in al-Suweira district some 20 km (13 miles) south of Kut -- which is in the southern Iraqi province of Wasit bordering Iran. Later in the day, unknown gunmen attacked a US patrol vehicle in east of Dalouiya, in Salah al-Din province. There have been no reports of casualties. "Unknown armed men fired a rocket propelled grenade (RPG) on a US patrol vehicle in al-Mashrouaa village, east of Dalouiya," a source told Voices of Iraq news agency. |
| Posted by:Fred |