Baghdad, November 16: Five Iraqis, including a senior prison official, have been killed, and at least 28 others injured, in the latest spate of terror attacks to wrack the war-torn country.
In the volatile Nineveh province in the north, two car bombs targeted the residential compound for prison security guards in the town of Badoush at around 9:00 a.m. (0600 GMT) on Monday, AFP reported.
The blasts killed Lieutenant Colonel Hussein Khalaf, the head of the prison’s emergency response team, and another civilian working in the prison.
Eleven prison guards and 5 civilians also sustained injuries in the explosions.
In the western province of Anbar, two people were killed and five others injured by two roadside bombs in the town of Qaim, which is located on the Syrian border. One of the attacks targeted a market.
A policeman also lost his life and seven people were injured in Baghdad in two separate roadside bomb attacks against police patrols in the central and eastern sectors of the capital.
There were three policemen among the injured.
——–Agencies