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Eight people killed in Iraq, 18 injured

Other News Materials 5 April 2008 20:20 (UTC +04:00)

(dpa) - A priest, three civilians and four policemen were killed and 18 others wounded in separate incidents in Iraq, media reports said Saturday.

Security sources told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency that three civilians were killed and another 15 injured when a bomb targeted a bus containing 21 passengers in Baghdad.

In another incident, militants killed a Christian priest Youssef Adel of Mary Botrous church, as he left his home in Baghdad's Senaa street, VOI said.

In March, the Archbishop of Mosul Paulos Faraj Rahho was reported killed by gunmen who abducted him on February 29.

In the Iraqi province of Diyala, border official Sarjal Abdul- Karim told VOI that four headless corpses of policemen were found in Khanaqin area.

The policemen were abducted by gunmen in the early hours of Saturday, VOI said.

In Kirkuk, police sources told VOI on Saturday that a bomb went off targeting a patrol, resulting in the injury of three members of the patrol on Friday.

The US military said Saturday it killed Friday two suspected terrorists and confiscated their weapons in the city of Samarra.

Separately, Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki allowed ambulances and vehicles to move within the Shiite Baghdad neighbourhoods of Shula and Sadr City on Friday, General Qassim Atta, spokesman for Baghdad operations, told VOI.

Al-Maliki had imposed a curfew in the two neighbourhoods since the early hours of Monday.

Atta said doctors were also allowed to move freely in the districts, after showing their medical identification cards.

He added that other governmental services were now permitted to enter the districts, including electricity maintenance and garbage collection.

The move was aimed at preventing militants and criminal gangs from committing acts of violence in the neighbourhoods, Atta said.

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