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8 killed, 9 wounded in Iraq’s violence

16 August 2011 19:15 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Eight people were killed and nine wounded in separate bomb explosions and gunfire attacks in central and northern Iraq on Tuesday, the police said, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

Two soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb explosion near their patrol in eastern the Iraqi city of Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

In a separate incident, a roadside bomb explosion killed one policeman and wounded three others in a town near Mosul, the source said.

Elsewhere, a suspected gunman was killed around midday when a bomb he was making detonated in his hands at his house in the town of Ameriyat al-Fallujah, near the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Two of the gunman’s family members were also killed by the blast, the source said.

In addition, Iraqi security forces carried out search operation in Abu Ghraib area, some 20 km west of Baghdad, and arrested ten suspects believed to be involved in activities of insurgent groups, a local police source said.

Insurgent attacks still common in the once volatile Sunni Arab area in west of Baghdad that stretches through Anbar province to Iraq’s western borders with Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

Earlier in the day, the police reported the killing of two people and the wounding of six others in separate bomb and gunfire attacks in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala, while the Iraqi security forces arrested 17 suspects during the past 24 hours across the province.