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7+ People Killed, 6 Corpses Found

Good Morning,

In continuing violence, officials reported that at least seven people were killed _ including a U.S. soldier _ in scattered shootings and bombings, and six bodies were found.

In Baghdad's southern district of Dora, a bystander was killed in a gunfight between assailants and Iraqi police. A soldier wearing civilian clothes was gunned down near his home in the same neighborhood, where police also discovered a body, shot in the head, police said.

Police found four other corpses in northern and western Baghdad.

In the northern city of Mosul, gunmen killed a policeman who was driving his sons to school. One of the sons was also killed and the other seriously wounded, police said. In southern Iraq, the body of a barber kidnapped four days earlier was found in the city of Basra, police said.

A roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier southwest of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. More American troops have died in the first two weeks of April _ 36 _ than in the entire month of March, when 31 died, according to an Associated Press count.

At least 2,365 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the war in 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

An Iraqi police commando was also killed in a roadside bombing, about 20 miles south of Baghdad in Mahmoudiya.

A car bomb threat in the northern city of Tikrit prompted a curfew to be imposed Thursday until further notice, police said.

Several pedestrians were wounded in roadside bombings and drive-by shootings in the capital. In Amarah, 180 miles southeast of Baghdad, a roadside bomb missed a British military convoy and hit a minibus instead, wounding three passengers, police said.

Late Wednesday, two Iraqi contractors who supply the army with food were killed by gunmen who stopped their car about 28 miles south of the northern city of Kirkuk.

Gunmen kidnapped the young daughter of an oil company employee in Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad. South of Kirkuk, a doctor who heads the health center in Daqouq was also abducted, police said.

Have a nice day.

posted by Wink @ 9:10 AM