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Two killed, 9 wounded in Iraq’s violence

25 July 2011 18:34 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Two people were killed and nine wounded in separate attacks near the capital Baghdad and Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala on Monday, the police said, APA reports siting Xinhua.

Gunmen planted bombs around a house in the town of Amriyat al- Fallujah, near the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, killing the householder in his 50s and wounding three of his sons, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

In a separate incident, gunmen stormed a house in Abu Ghraib area, some 20 km west of Baghdad, and shot dead a man before they fled the scene, the source said.

In eastern Iraq, Omer Mohammed Ali, head of the Sunni Endowment office of Diyala province, and two of his bodyguards were wounded when a roadside bomb went off near their convoy of sport utility vehicles (SUV), while travelling in southern Diyala’s provincial capital city of Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, a source from the provincial operations command told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Ali’s office is responsible for mosques and religious properties of the Sunni community in Diyala province.

Separately, a roadside bomb struck a civilian car in a village near the city of Baquba, wounding two men and a woman, the source said.

Also in the province, the Iraqi security forces conducted search operations in the city of Mansouriyah, some 50 km east of Baquba and arrested eight suspects, the source said.

Violence and sporadic high-profile bomb attacks are common in Iraqi cities despite the dramatic decrease of violence over the past few years.