Five headless bodies found, four leaders of the Iraqi police were assassinated, 71 Iraqis, killed, injured
Some 31 Iraqis were killed and other 40 injured in a series of explosions and attacks yesterday in Iraq where one American soldier was also killed and other 7 injured. Five headless bodied were also found and four Iraqi police leaders were assassinated.
On Monday evening the American planes raided al-Sader city after one American patrol was attacked in the same area. The two sides exchanged fire that resulted in killing one persons and injuring others. Citizens said they heard the explosions and exchanges fire until today at dawn.
Meantime, two large explosions were heard in al-Ramadi yesterday. News were contradictory on the number of victims.
The American army announced that four of its soldiers were injured in al-Musil yesterday in a booby trapped car explosion that targeted an American patrol and also resulted in killing four Iraqi civilians. It said one of its soldiers clashed after the explosion with armed men.
Earlier, the Iraqi police said that three Iraqis were killed and others injured when the American forces opened fire after it was attacked in al-Yarmouk quarters in the city.
In Musil, the Iraqi police found the bodies of three beheaded Iraqis during the three past days. two bodies were found in a cemetery on Tuesday and the third body was on the roadside. In Karkouk to the north of Iraq, the body of a police officer Ali Hussein was found, beheaded. It is the second body founded in the area within 24 hours.
Moreover, the Iraqi police announced the killing of ten of its men including one senior officer in two separate attacks to the south of Baghdad. Six police men were killed while they were on their way to Baghdad from al-Mahmodeyah. Other three were killed as they stopped at al Lteifeyah oil station. One police man survived the attack said that the attackers took one million dollars from his killed colleagues.
The police also announced that Iraqi civilians were injured by one mortar shell that fell near the ministry of the interior in Baghdad, while two mortars fell near the ministry of oil. No casualties were reported.
In Samera, the American and Iraqi forces ran yesterday patrols in the streets of the city. The chairman of the city's municipality, Taha al-Handari, said that water and electricity returned back to it and that the bridge leading to it was reopened, noting that life returned to normalcy.