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23+ Killed

Good Morning,

At least 23 violent deaths were reported by police nationwide, including four people who died in three bombings targeting a police patrol, a busy Tigris River bridge and a central market in Baghdad. The attacks also left 23 people wounded.

In other violence:

_ A police officer riding his motorcycle home was killed in a drive-by shooting in central Baghdad, and a clerk with the Ministry of Industry was shot to death elsewhere in the city.

_ Four people, including a police officer and a police receptionist, were shot to death in separate attacks in Mosul. Police also discovered the charred body of an apparent murder victim in the northern city.

_ Two people were killed in Baqouba and Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles north of Baghdad.

_ Sunni cleric Sheikh Yasin al-Kubaisi and his son Ahmed were killed during clashes between police and armed fuel smugglers in the southern border town of Safwan.

_ The bullet-riddled bodies of three people who had been blindfolded and bound at the wrists were found dumped in eastern Baghdad, and five more bodies were pulled from the Tigris River near Suwayrah, 25 miles south of the capital.

Elsewhere, a member of the Transportation Ministry protection force was kidnapped while visiting relatives in Rahsad, 150 miles north of Baghdad. Gunmen also abducted a teacher from his classroom at the Rasool Intermediate School in Amarah, 200 miles southeast of Baghdad, the school's headmaster, Ahmed Naeem said.


Have a nice day.

posted by Wink @ 10:41 AM