Danish soldier killed in Basra, 54 Iraqis also

The Danish army announced that one of its soldiers was killed and another injured in a bomb explosion near al-Basra city, south of Iraq. Thereby number of Danish soldiers who have been killed since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 increased to four.

Yesterday attacks and explosions continued in Iraq leaving 54 Iraqis as killed and scores wounded.

Al-Karradah area in Baghdad was a stage for the most violent among these attacks as 25 Iraqis were killed including 10 policemen and other 25 injured in a booby trapped car explosions in front of the headquarters of the "major crimes unit" of the Iraqi police.

Also in Baghdad three police men were killed in a booby trapped car explosions in Morocco street, while a third booby trapped car explosion in a market near a Shiite mosque in the fifth police zone resulted in killing 7 and injuring 20. Four Iraqis including two policemen were killed in various attack in Baghdad.

In Baqouba, four Iraqi policemen were killed in a bomb explosion hitting their vehicle in the city which is situated northeast of Baghdad.

In Haditha town northewest of Baghdad, nine Iraqi soldiers were killed when a suicide bomber attacked a vehicle for the Iraqi army near the American " Lion" air base near this town.

To the south of Baghdad, one Iraqi policeman and one soldier were killed in two bomb explosions hitting their vehicles in al-Iskanderayeh and al-Lteifeyah areas.