Escalation of resistance; Iraqi killed in attack on deputy governor

Iraqi medical and security sources said that one Iraqi civilian was killed and other 15 wounded in an explosion that targeted an official near Baqouba in Deyali governorate to the north east of Baghdad.

The Iraqi police said that the deputy governor of the city Aqil Hamid was not hit in the explosion which took place when its convoy passed by Mu'askar area near Baqouba city, 60 Km to the north east of Baghdad.

In another attack, two Iraqi civilians were killed and 8 wounded when 6 mortars fell at al-Doubat quarters in the downtown of Karkouk on late Sunday evening. One police man was wounded in a bomb explosion to the east of the city.

Also in northern Iraq, news reports said that one American soldiers was wounded yesterday in Musil city when an explosive went off at Rafeydeen bank when an American patrol was there to protect the bank, according to witnesses.

Witnesses in Khaledeyah city in Iraq said that the American occupation soldiers opened fire from their weapons at one school and at a nearby house and this resulted in wounding two brothers who were admitted to hospital.

An American spokesman said that two Americans that work for the engineering unit of the US army were killed on Sunday evening in a bomb explosion on one crossroad in Falouja city, 50 Km to the west of Baghdad.