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4 Killed Today, 51 Killed Yesterday

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Insurgent attacks in Baghdad on Tuesday left four people dead, including a Sunni imam who was assassinated.

The attacks come a day after at least 51 people, including two members of a CBS News crew, were killed in violence across the country.

Two women were killed Tuesday when insurgent rocket fire hit the third floor of Iraq's Interior Ministry, an official with Baghdad Emergency Police said. Four Iraqi police were wounded.

According to police, at least three rockets were fired from a car in central Baghdad's Zayuna neighborhood, more than a mile away from the ministry building. One hit the building, and two other rockets landed short of the facility.

Ali Farhan Abdullah, the Imam of Ansar al-Muhajrin Sunni mosque, was assassinated Tuesday by gunmen in the northern Baghdad Shiite neighborhood of Shula, Baghdad police said. A number of gunmen stormed Abdullah's house adjacent to the mosque and shot him to death.

Also Tuesday, an Iraqi police commando was killed and three other commandos were wounded when a roadside bomb hit their convoy in the capital's Saydiya section.

Separately, Iraqi police found three unidentified bodies in various Baghdad neighborhoods Tuesday morning. All had been shot in the head and showed signs of torture.

In Hilla, about 60 miles south of Baghdad, an explosion Tuesday ripped through a used car lot, killing four and wounding six, according to a police spokesman.

Have a nice day.

posted by Wink @ 8:45 AM