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2 killed, 5 injured in Iraq’s violence

05 June 2012 17:52 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Two people were killed and five others injured Tuesday in separate bomb attacks in eastern and central Iraq, the police said, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

In Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala, an explosives expert was killed and two policemen injured while they were defusing a roadside bomb in al-Adheim area, some 100 km northeast of the capital Baghdad, a provincial police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

In a separate incident, a roadside bomb went off in the town of Buhruz, near the provincial capital city of Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, killing an old man and wounding his grandson, the source said.

In Baghdad, two civilians were injured when a roadside bomb detonated near a government building near Beirut Square in Palestine Street in eastern the capital, an Interior Ministry source anonymously told Xinhua.

Sporadic attacks still common in Iraqi cities despite the dramatic decrease in violence since its peak in 2006 and 2007 when the country was engulfed in sectarian killings.