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| Police Officer Killed in Rare South Iraq Attack |
| 2014-03-23 |
| [An Nahar] A police officer was killed in a relatively rare attack in the Iraqi port city of Basra Saturday, while security forces reopened a key highway after retaking a village from Death Eaters. The latest bloodshed came a day after attacks across the country killed 33 people, with bombings and shootings largely targeting Sunni Arab-majority areas of northern and western IraqIn Basra, police Lieutenant Colonel Ihsan Maadhi was bumped off in front of his house in the center of the southern city, police and medical sources said. The shooting was a relatively rare incident of violence in Shiite-majority southern Iraq, which still suffers attacks but on a markedly lower scale than Storied Baghdad and northern and western Iraq. Elsewhere on Saturday, security forces reopened a key highway connecting Storied Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk after retaking a village from anti-government fighters who held it for several hours a day earlier. The festivities in the village of Sarha were part of nationwide violence that left 33 people dead, including coordinated late-night bombings against the home of a police major in the center of Tikrit that killed four. Attacks also struck elsewhere in Salaheddin province, as well as the restive northern provinces of Nineveh and Kirkuk and in the western desert province of Anbar., just weeks ahead of national parliamentary elections. |
| Posted by:Fred |