Bloody attack in Baqouba

Ten Iraqis were killed including two policemen and two children and other four injured in an attack by a booby trapped car that targeted an Iraqi police vehicle in Kanaan area to the south east of the city on Tuesday morning.

Police sources said that the attack took place when a police car was heading for Kanaan as a supportive force, after the police center there was exposed to an attack by mortars shelling launched by unidentified gunmen. The sources indicated that the booby trapped car was stationed by the roadside near the postal office headquarters.

The attack in Baqouba is the most recent in the series of similar attacks that targeted during the past 24 hours the Iraqi police and army centers in various areas.

Meantime, medical sources at al-Yarmouk hospital in Baghdad said on Tuesday that it admitted to the hospital the bodies of 24 Iraqis who were killed by bullets, slaughtered or burnt during the few past days to the west of Iraq, most of them were truck drivers.