28 Iraqis killed in Iraq

Some 20 Iraqis including five regular policemen and large number of secret police were killed in a suicide attack targeting a restaurant near the headquarters of the government in the so-called Green Zone area.

Witnesses said that other 20 persons were injured as one attacker broke into the restaurant which is situated in Karradah Mariam area in the center of Baghdad, noting that the restaurant is trodden very often by police members and guards.

In another development, a source in the Iraqi ministry of the interior said that two persons were killed and other 15 injured in an explosion by a booby trapped car which was stationed on the roadside and targeted a procession for the Iraqi police in al-Nuwab area near al-Kazemeyah to the north of Baghdad.

Two Iraqi soldiers and one civilian were killed when one booby trapped car went off targeting a joint Iraqi- American military base to the north of Baghdad. Medical sources in Tikrit hospital said that other 13 persons were injured.

Police sources announced that two Iraqi police men were killed when unidentified gunmen opened fire at them near Arab Child hospital in the north of Baghdad. A source in the Iraqi ministry of the interior said that seven unidentified bodies were found in al-Ammareyah area to the east of Baghdad.