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3 Corpses Found, Grocer Killed In His Shop

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The bullet-ridden, handcuffed and blindfolded bodies of three Iraqi men were found in Baghdad's southern Dora neighborhood, said police Capt. Jamil Hussein. A drive-by shooting also killed a Shiite grocer in his shop, Hussein said.

Elsewhere, three roadside bombs exploded in Baghdad, wounding two civilians, police said.

The first bomb exploded at 8 a.m. in the Mashtal district of eastern Baghdad, wounding two civilians, said police Maj. Mahir Musa.

The second blast, targeting an Iraqi police convoy, occurred at 9:45 a.m. on a highway in the nearby district of Kamsara, causing no casualties, said police Lt. Bilal Ali Majid.

About five minutes later, a fuel can being used as a roadside bomb exploded about 500 yards behind a U.S. military convoy in Al-Bayaa, a neighborhood of southern Baghdad, causing no injuries or damage, the U.S. military said.

In other violence Monday:

_ Insurgents fired two mortar shells at a U.S. military base in Haqlaniyah, 140 miles northwest of Baghdad, prompting soldiers to search surrounding houses and shops for suspected militants, witnesses said. No casualties were reported.

_ In Tikrit, the hometown of former Prime Minister Saddam Hussein, roadside bombs aimed at American convoys exploded in two nearby neighborhoods, police said. No casualties were reported, but U.S. and Iraqi forces to searched homes in both areas.

Have a nice day.

posted by Wink @ 9:52 AM