Baghdad, November 07: One police officer has been killed in a militant attack in the Iraqi capital while 13 other people have been injured in separate bombings across the country.
A policeman was killed on Saturday when he was gunned down by a group of armed men in the city of Mosul, the capital of the northern province of Nineveh, the Aswat al-Iraq news agency reported.
A man and his son were injured in a bombing attack, apparently targeting an Iraqi army patrol, in Owainat village in Mosul’s northwestern district of Rubai’a.
In Baghdad, two explosive devices were detonated in the south of the city, wounding seven people, among them three policemen and two members of the Civil Defense forces.
In the first of the twin blasts, a bomb ripped through a shop. Then, a bomb planted on the side of the road next to the shop went off, wounding the five security forces and two civilians who had rushed to the scene.
Another bomb, planted in a civilian car, exploded in central Baghdad, wounding its driver.
Three Iraqi policemen were injured on the same day after a home-made bomb was detonated in Tarimiya, in northeastern Baghdad.
Meanwhile, the US Delta military base in the al-Ahrar district in the west of the city of al-Kut, Wasit province, was targeted by Katyusha rockets. The US forces at the base declined to comment on possible casualties or property damage in the rocket attack.
——–Agencies