Three Polish soldiers killed in Iraq
Three Polish soldiers were killed in their helicopter crash near Karbala city to the south of Baghdad. The spokesman for the multinational squad which is led by Poland in southern Iraq Lt. Arthur Domanisky said that the helicopter crashed after a damage in its engine forced its crew to land, 8 km from karbala, noting that other 4 Polish soldiers were injured.
Thereby the total number of killed Polish citizens is16 military men and four civilians who were killed in Iraq since the deployment of the Polish forces in this country since August 2003.
Prior to that, the American army announced that one member of the Marines was killed on Tuesday during military operations in al-Anbar governorate. It was also announced that another soldier was also killed to the south of Baghdad.
In southern Baghdad, four members of the Iraqi police were killed and other 20 injured while other 13 were considered as missing in an attack against a police convoy while it was running from the zone as the so-called Triangle Of Death on Tuesday.
In Musil the American army said that gunmen tried to control two police centers in this city, situated to the north of Iraq. But the Iraqi police and national guards confronted them and prevented them from breaking into the two centers.
Sources in the Iraqi police said that a senior official in the Ministry Of Interior was kidnapped yesterday by men wearing the suits of the national guards from his house in al-Taji area to the north of Baghdad, adding that this official was taken to an unidentified place, specifying not the identity of the kidnappers nor their intention.
In a similar incident, sources in the Iraqi police said that unidentified persons kidnapped on Tuesday evening one engineer working in the general company for railways in Beiji to the north of Baghdad together with her husband.
The police said yesterday that two Turkish drivers and one Iraqi girl were killed during the past 24 hours in northern Baghdad.
In Karbala, unidentified persons killed the director general of taxation department while coming out of his house in al-Huseineyah area to the north of the city, yesterday morning.