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| Four more Iraqi policemen die in upsurge of violence |
| 2009-12-23 |
| [Iran Press TV Latest] Four Iraqi policemen have died and several others have been injured in the city of Baghdad and the provinces of Kirkuk, Nineveh, and Anbar as the country experiences another upsurge in violence. A policeman was killed on Monday when he came under attack by unknown gunmen in front of a gas station in southern part of Kirkuk city. The gunmen escaped the scene in a vehicle and their whereabouts are unknown. Security forces cordoned off the area after the attack and launched an investigation. A police officer also succumbed to injuries sustained last week in Kirkuk. "Lieutenant Mohammad Ahmad from the Kirkuk police department died on Monday at a hospital in Sulaymaniya. The officer had been wounded last Wednesday (December 16) in a sticky bomb explosion in al-Muallemin neighborhood in northwestern Kirkuk," a police official said. In another incident, unidentified assailants shot dead an Iraqi police officer in Mosul, which is the capital of Nineveh province. "On Monday afternoon, a policeman was killed by unknown gunmen in al-Majmoua al-Thaqafiyah region in northern Mosul," a local security source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the Aswat al-Iraq news agency. In addition, two Iraqi police officers were injured on Monday when a thermal bomb targeting an Iraqi army vehicle patrol went off in the al-Islah al-Zeraei neighborhood of western Mosul. The two wounded policemen were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment. Elsewhere, a policeman was killed when an explosive charge attached to his car detonated and destroyed his vehicle in the city of Fallujah, some 50 kilometers (31 miles) west of Baghdad. The attack came as insurgent attacks have increased recently in the once volatile province of Anbar. The province has been relatively calm for more than two years after Sunni tribes and some anti-US insurgent groups decided to cooperate with US troops and Iraqi security forces to fight against the Al-Qaeda in Iraq network. And in Baghdad, two more policemen were injured by a roadside bomb that was detonated as their patrol passing through the al-Adel neighborhood. |
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