Baghdad, April 28: Two Iraqi soldiers have been killed and more than a dozen others wounded in an overnight mortar attack on a security station in northern Baghdad.
The incident took place late on Tuesday when three mortar shells hit a joint army-police office in Baghdad’s Hurriyah area almost an hour after midnight, AFP quoted police and hospital officials as saying.
Fourteen people, including an army colonel, were also wounded in the attack, they added.
Hurriyah witnessed another major attack last Friday when a car bomb at the district’s Hadi al-Chalabi mosque left eight people killed and 19 others injured.
The bombing came as part of what seemed to be a coordinated strike aimed at Shia prayers across the Iraqi capital that killed a total of 72 people and wounded hundreds more. One of the blasts also targeted police officials in the country’s western Anbar province.
Iraq’s Sadr movement condemned Friday’s bloody attacks on mosques in Baghdad and held US forces responsible for the recent wave of violence and insecurity in the country.
The movement charged the foreign forces of launching terrorist attacks in order to weaken the government, noting that a strong government made up of different political parties would not be in Washington’s best interest.
——–Agencies