19 killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD: At least 19 people were killed in violence in Iraq on Wednesday, including 12 in an ambush near the restive city of Baquba, security officials said.
President Jalal Talabani, meanwhile, appealed for a halt to the sectarian violence which has seen more than 1,000 people killed in Baghdad alone over the past month. Twelve people were killed on Wednesday as gunmen ambushed a minibus carrying employees of a local electricity company near Baquba and “sprayed it with bullets”, a police official said. “After the attack the police came to investigate, and at that time the bus exploded, wounding a policeman,” he added.
In a separate incident near Baquba, Kanan Abdallah, Baquba’s deputy police intelligence chief, and his two bodyguards were shot dead by gunmen, police said. In Baghdad’s southern Al-Bayaa neighborhood, defence ministry media official Mohammed Moshib was killed in an ambush on Wednesday, a source in his ministry said.
Over in Yarmouk, unknown gunmen shot dead two traffic policemen, including a first lieutenant. And a roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol near the central neighborhood of Karrada killed one soldier. AFP
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