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Seven dead in string of attacks on Iraqi security forces

Arab World Materials 28 October 2010 03:01 (UTC +04:00)
Seven people, including an Iraqi police chief, were killed and 13 injured Wednesday in a series of attacks targeting security forces in Iraq, DPA reported.
Seven dead in string of attacks on Iraqi security forces

Seven people, including an Iraqi police chief, were killed and 13 injured Wednesday in a series of attacks targeting security forces in Iraq, DPA reported.

Mohamed Ibrahim, the chief of police investigations for the north- eastern district of Jalawlaa, and three of his companions were killed by a bomb targeting Ibrahim's convoy.

The attack took place on the road linking Jalawlaa, which is located north-east of the city of Baquba, with the al-Saadiya district, security sources said.

On the outskirts of the northern city of Mosul, meanwhile, two soldiers were killed and nine people - most of them civilians - injured by a bomb targeting an Iraqi military patrol.

In a separate attack in Mosul, gunmen also killed a policewoman and injured her brother, security sources said.

In central Fallujah, another three people - including two soldiers - were injured by another bomb targeting an Iraqi military patrol. The city is located some 60 kilometres west of Baghdad.

Attacks on security forces have recently increased in Iraq, as a seven-month political stalemate surrounding the formation of a new government has dragged on.

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