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| Iraq: Vehicle ban in eastern city of Baquba after explosion |
| 2009-07-25 |
| [ADN Kronos] Iraqi security forces on Thursday imposed a vehicle ban in the centre of the city of Baquba after a bomb injured three civilians, according to security sources quoted by the Voices of Iraq news agency. Baquba located 57 kilometres m from Baghdad, is the capital of Iraq's volatile eastern Diyala province. Deadly attacks increased in Iraq as the United States completed its pullback of troops from urban areas at the end of June. The overall level of violence has fallen sharply in recent months, however. As recently as Wednesday, armed gunmen shot dead five Iranian pilgrims in Diyala close to the border with Iran, as they travelled aboard a bus. VOI quoted an unnamed police source as claiming that Al-Qaeda was behind the attack. At least 35 pilgrims were injured in the attack. Also on Wednesday, authorities in Iraq's western al-Anbar province have arrested more than 300 suspected insurgents, following a series of recent attacks in the area. In Ramadi, the capital of al-Anbar, where Wednesday's arrests were made, three people were killed in a bomb blast outside a restaurant the previous day, reports said. A vehicle ban remains in place in the city. Also on Wednesday, the US military said two assailants and one bystander had been killed in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, when a US convoy came under fire. In April dozens of Iranian pilgrims were killed in a series of blasts in Baghdad and Baquba. |
| Posted by:Fred |