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6 killed in latest violence in Iraq

27 August 2012 19:47 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. A total of six people were killed and 11 other wounded Monday in separate gunfire and bomb attacks in Iraq, the police said, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

The Brigadier General Abdul Mohsen Khazal was shot dead by gunmen with silenced weapons in Taji, some 20 km north of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

In Iraq’s northern province of Nineveh, two roadside bombs detonated successively near a police patrol in southeastern the provincial capital city of Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, killing two passers-by and injuring three others, a provincial police source told Xinhua.

On the same day, a suicide bomber drove his explosive-laden car into the convoy of Mohammed Ahmed Suliman, a police lieutenant colonel, in the town of Tal Afar, some 70 km west of Mosul, killing one civilian and injuring Suliman and two of his bodyguards, the source said.

In Anbar province, a roadside bomb exploded near a police vehicle in the city of Haditha, killing a civilian and wounding four policemen, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Meanwhile, in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala, a civilian was killed and another injured when a home-made bomb went off near their house, a local police source told Xinhua, adding that the security forces have arrested seven suspects, including three wanted individuals.

Violence and sporadic high-profile bomb attacks are 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.