Some 23 Iraqis killed in attacks in new campaign in Baghdad
Attacks and explosions continued yesterday in various parts of Iraq, the last of which resulted in killing three persons and injuring other 20 in a booby trapped car explosion targeted a convoy for the police forces of the Iraqi ministry of the interior in al-Amereyah area to the west of Baghdad.
Two booby trapped cars targeted the American forces and the Iraqi police in the same area. The volume of casualties resulted from these explosions was not known.
In another attack, one police officer was killed together with his driver and other four members of the Iraqi police were injured in a booby trapped car led by a suicidor at a police vehicle in Zeyouna area to the east of Baghdad near the headquarters of the Assurian democratic Movement. At least, two persons were killed and other 6 injured in a suicide attack by a booby trapped car near the headquarters of the Iraqi ministry of oil in Baghdad.
To the south of Baghdad, nine Iraqi soldiers were killed by an attack in a booby trapped car at an inspection point for the Iraqi army between al-Yousefeyah and al-Mahmoudeyah area, according to a source at the Iraqi ministry of defense. In al-Madayen, one member of the police forces was killed together with two civilians while nine others were injured in an attack by a booby trapped car targeted a convoy for these forces.
In Touz Khourmato city to the north of Baghdad, two Iraqis were killed and other nine were injured in a booby trapped car explosion when one American vehicle was running near a headquarters of a Kurdish party. One civilian was killed and other two were injured in a bomb explosion on the high way which links al-Khales and al-Azeem to the north of Baghdad. A small bus carrying several civilians was hit. The Iraqi police found the body of an Iraqi contractor working with the American forces and a translator that works for a foreign company and one policeman in the north of Iraq.
In another development, one British soldier was killed and others injured in an attack by a bomb near al-Kahlaa of al-Amara governorate to the south of Baghdad, according to British military sources and the Iraqi police.
The American army also announced the killing of one Marine on Saturday in a bomb explosion in al-Aqlaneyah area near Haditha city to the west of Iraq where an American military operation was completed on Sunday after it had lasted for four days.