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Fifteen killed in Iraq bombings, shootings

* Bomb explodes near top Iraq generals in Basra

BAGHDAD: Insurgents killed at least 15 people and wounded several others in spate of bombings and shootings across Iraq on Wednesday, AFP quoted Iraqi officials as saying. Four people were killed and four others were kidnapped at a fake checkpoint near the central town of Al Dhuluiyah, in Salaheddin province, police said.

In the province of Diyala, insurgents killed six people, including three Iraqi security personnel, police said.

The three security guards were killed in a roadside bomb attack in the town of Mandeli, east of the provincial capital of Baquba, police Major Muhammad Al Kharki said.

The others killed were two policemen and a woman in separate roadside bomb attacks in and around Baquba, police added. In Baghdad, several armed men fired at a civilian car and killed two women working for a mobile telephone company, a security official said. Their driver was wounded.

Three people were killed and 13 others wounded, including cameraman Maytham Ibrahim working with Iraq's independent Al Diyar satellite television, in a roadside bombing in Baghdad, officials said.

Ibrahim survived but lost a leg, station’s news editor Imed al-Abadi told AFP.

He was walking down a street on his way to cover clashes between Shia militiamen and Iraqi and US forces that have ravaged parts of eastern Baghdad for more than a week when the attack occurred.

Basra blast: Also on Wednesday, a roadside bomb exploded near a convoy carrying Iraqi generals in a Shia militia stronghold in the southern city of Basra, but the officials were unhurt, Reuters quoted one of the officers as saying.

Major-General Muhammad Al Askari, spokesman for Iraq's Defence Ministry, said he was in a convoy with Basra's security chief, Lieutenant-General Mohan Al Firaiji, when the blast went off in the Hayaniya neighbourhood.

An Iraqi television correspondent was wounded in the leg, Askari said, adding that he might have been hit by a bullet.

There were reports of sporadic clashes in Basra on Wednesday, but Askari denied there had been any fresh fighting. agencies

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