Separate attacks across Iraq left three dead and 48 injured, many of them policemen and soldiers, while four
gunmen, two of them Egyptians, were killed, police said Thursday.
Three people were killed and 15 wounded in a car bombing that targeted a police
patrol in central Baghdad, a security source said.
"Among the casualties are 12 policemen injured and one police element
dead," a police source told Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency.
Nine members of a special police unit were injured by a bomb in the Palestine road area in east Baghdad while a bomb blast targeting the motorcade of a police
general in Beirut square, also in east Baghdad, left six people injured, the
VOI cited police sources as saying.
In west Baghdad's Embassy road, six army personnel were injured by gunmen while
a bomb targeting a security official in east Baghdad injured five.
In the northern province of Nineveh, two tank drivers were wounded in an attack
by unknown gunmen against four tanks carrying crude oil, a police source said.
Moreover, two separate bombs exploded leaving one woman and a policeman
injured. Sources told VOI that both bombs were targeting police patrols in
different districts in Nineveh's capital, Mosul, 405 kilometres north of Baghdad.
Earlier, Iraqi security forces and members of a tribal force known as the
Awakening Council raided a hideout of suspected terrorists in Ishaki, near
Tikrit, 170 kilometres north of Baghdad, police sources told Deutsche
Presse-Agentur dpa.
In a shootout with the police, four gunmen were killed. Two of them had
documents showing they are Egyptians.
In the south, three civilians were wounded on Thursday by a roadside bomb which
went off near a convoy of the security care company in Wassit (180 kilometres southeast of Baghdad), a police source said, according to dpa.