2 killed, 9 injured in Iraq's violence

2 killed, 9 injured in Iraq's violence

Two people were killed and nine others injured in separate bomb and gunfire attacks in central Iraq on Saturday, the police said.

A sticky bomb attached to a minibus carrying passengers detonated in Mudhafar Square in Baghdad's eastern district of Sadr City, killing one civilian and wounding four others, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

In a separate incident, three civilians were injured when a bomb went off inside a residential building in Baghdad's southwestern neighborhood of Eilam, the source said.

Also in Baghdad, two civilians were wounded when a sticky bomb attached to their car detonated in the northeastern district of Benoug, the source added.

In Salahudin province, gunmen broke into the house of a policeman in the city of Tuz-Khurmato, some 90 km east of the provincial capital city of Tikrit, and shot him dead before they fled the scene, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Salahudin province, located in northern-central of Iraq, is a mainly Sunni province. Its capital city of Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad, is the hometown of the country's former President Saddam Hussein.

In earlier reports, the police said that four people were killed and 11 wounded when gunmen blew up four bombs planted in the house of a leader of a local anti-Qaida group, known as Awakening Council, in Taji area, some 20 km north of Baghdad.

The group leader escaped the attack unharmed but his brother and wife were among the dead by the blasts that left the leader's house entirely collapsed and caused severe damage to nearby houses.

Violence has been down in Iraq since its peak in 2006 and 2007 when the country was engulfed in sectarian killings, but deadly bombings and shootings still occur on daily basis.

English.news.cn   2011-11-05 21:54:47 FeedbackPrintRSS
BAGHDAD, Nov. 5 (Xinhua)