(dpa) -
At least 10 people were killed and 14 others wounded in separate incidents in Iraq, media reports and US military said Saturday.
In Tikrit, some 180 kilometres north of Baghdad, US forces killed five
suspected terrorists during military operations, US military said. US forces
also discovered weapons and some 900 explosives in the town.
In another incident, US forces killed two suspected terrorists and detained
another seven in the northern city of Samara, US military said.
While searching for a senior leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist network west of
the Iraqi capital, US forces killed a suspected terrorist and detained another
six.
Separately, al-Arabiya news channel reported that a sponsor of the al-Qaeda
network Amir Abd Zaid was arrested in Iraq on Saturday.
Iraqi police sources told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency that a suicide
bomber detonated his explosive vehicle on Saturday, killing one member of the
Awakening Councils and wounding another three in Amiriya area western Baghdad.
In Baghdad's Salikh area, a bomb went off targeting an Iraqi checkpoint
injuring three soldiers.
Security sources told dpa that militants opened fire on civilians in the Karada
area, central Baghdad, wounding six people, including three Iraqi traffic
police.
In other news, one Iraqi soldier was killed and another two were wounded on
Friday when a bomb went off targeting their vehicle in the Iraqi province of Diyala, VOI said on Saturday.