Baghdad, July 25: Separate attacks in central and eastern Iraq have claimed the lives of 2 policemen and a civilian, and injured 9 other people, police say.
A roadside bomb blast in the southern city of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province and 110 kilometers west of Baghdad, killed a policeman and wounded three others, one of them civilian, Xinhua reported a provincial police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, as saying.
In a separate attack in Baghdad, unidentified assailants in a car gunned down a traffic policeman in the central district of Karrada, according to an anonymous Interior Ministry source.
Also in Nidhal Street in the same district, the police reported the wounding of two policemen and a civilian in a roadside bomb explosion on Sunday.
Meanwhile, there were police reports of a civilian having been killed and three other people injured in separate roadside bomb and gunfire attacks in Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala.
Bombings and other forms of violence escalated in Iraq soon after the US-led invasion of the country in 2003. Washington said the military action was carried out to discover the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) of the former dictator Saddam Hussein’s Baathist regime. However, no WMDs have ever been found in the country.
Over one million Iraqis met violent deaths as a result of the 2003 invasion, according to a study conducted by the prestigious British polling group, Opinion Research Business (ORB).
——–Agencies