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August 31st,
2009 - Three Killed in Iraq Attacks |
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From Agence France Presse August 31, 2009 Baquba, Iraq - Three people
were killed and 30 more were wounded, among them a local official and his
son, in attacks across Iraq on Monday, security officials said. One person died and 13 were
hurt when a booby-trapped car blew up at a market in Qara Tapa, 120
kilometres (75 miles) northeast of the capital, an official in Diyala
province said. Both Kurds and Sunni Arabs live in the area. And in Khalis 80 kilometres
(50 miles) northeast of Baghdad local official Uday al-Khadran and his son
Issam were wounded in a bombing at a local market, the same source and a
doctor at Baquba hospital said. In Mahmudiyah, 30 kilometres
(20 miles) south of the capital, two civilians were killed and another 10
were wounded by a bomb attack again targeting a marketplace, an interior
ministry official said. A driver and two passers-by
were wounded by a bomb attached to a car in the Adhamiyah neighbourhood of
north Baghdad, while an explosion in the Ghadir area in the east of the city
wounded two soldiers, the same source said. Copyright © 2009 AFP. External link: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iPffAssYnUFzD2YU5df8AdzOs2Fw |