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Six people killed, 14 wounded in Iraq’s violence

19 April 2011 19:21 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. A total of six people were killed and 14 others wounded in separate gunfire and bomb attacks in Iraq on Tuesday, the police said, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

A sticky bomb attached to the car of a government employee detonated before midday in the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, killing him and wounding two bystanders, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

In a separate incident, unidentified gunmen using silenced weapons shot dead a policeman at a checkpoint in al-Jihad neighborhood in southwestern Baghdad, a source from the Interior Ministry told Xinhua on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

In south of Baghdad, Jawad al-Jubouri, a member of parliamentary bloc loyal to the Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, survived unharmed twin roadside bomb explosions near his convoy in central the town of Mussayab, some 50 km south of the capital, the source said.

Three of Jubouri’s bodyguards were wounded by the blasts, which also caused damages to two of the convoy’s vehicles, the source added.

The town is part of the once restive area, dubbed Triangle of Death, which is a cluster of towns scattered north of Hilla city, the capital of Babil province, some 100 km south of Baghdad.

In Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala, unknown gunmen opened fire and wounded a civilian near his house outside the town of Bani Sa’ad in southwest of Diyala’s capital city of Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, a source from the provincial operations command told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Earlier in the day, the police reportedly said three women and a government official were killed and eight people wounded in separate gunfire and bomb attacks in Iraq’s northern city of Kirkuk and Baghdad.

Violence and sporadic high-profile bomb attacks continue in the Iraqi cities as the U.S. troops are expected to completely pull out from Iraq by the end of 2011 according to the security pact named Status of Forces Agreement, or SOFA signed late in 2008 between Baghdad and Washington.