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10 Iraqis Killed, 23 Injured in Attacks

June 3-4, 2010

3 army soldiers wounded in IED blast in Mosul

June 4, 2010 - 03:55:42

NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq:

Three Iraqi army personnel were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off near their patrol in western Mosul city on Friday, a military source said.

“An IED blast targeted a patrol of the Iraqi army in the area of al-Haramat, western Mosul, leaving two soldiers and one officer in the rank of first lieutenant injured,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“Security forces imposed a security cordon in search of the culprits and rushed the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment,” he added.

The source did not give further details.

Mosul, the capital city of the volatile province of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad.

AmR (P)

IED blast kills 2 civilians, wounds 4 in Mosul

June 4, 2010 - 02:07:03

NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq:

 Two civilians were killed and four others wounded in an improvised explosive device blast on Friday, a local police source in Ninewa said.

“The IED went off on the main street in al-Rifai’e neighborhood, western Mosul, leaving two civilian men killed and four others wounded,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“The wounded were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment,” the source added, not giving further details about the explosion or the nature of the injuries.

Mosul, the capital city of the unrest-stricken province of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad.

AmR (P)

4 soldiers killed, wounded by Katyusha rockets in Amara

June 4, 2010 - 11:10:30

MISSAN / Aswat al-Iraq:

Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and two more were wounded when two Katyusha rockets hit the Missan Operations Command in north of Amara, a security source said on Friday.

“Late Thursday (June 3), two Katyusha rockets hit the Missan Operations Command at al-Batiera airport, north of Amara, killing two soldiers and wounding two more,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“The rockets were launched from Nahawand region, northern Amara,” he added, without giving further details.

Amara, the capital of Missan, is 390 km south of Baghdad.

SH (P)

Sahwa fighter killed in Diala

June 4, 2010 - 08:42:20

DIALA / Aswat al-Iraq:

One Sahwa fighter was killed on Friday by a sticky bomb explosion in central Baaquba, according to a security source.

“A bomb, stuck to a civilian vehicle, went off on Friday morning (June 4) in al-Jaheza region in central Baaquba, killing a Sahwa fighter,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“Security forces cordoned off the whole region as a precautionary measure,” he added.

Baaquba, the capital of Diala, lies 67 km northeast of Baghdad.

SH (P)

4 died, 14 wounded in Sinjar blast

June 3, 2010 - 08:24:30

NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq:

The number of casualties from Thursday’s earlier car bomb attack that targeted several stores selling liquor in Sinjar district rose to four deaths and 14 wounded, according to the Sinjar Public Hospital director.

“The final count of casualties from a car bomb blast that targeted some stores selling liquor in Tal Qasab, southern Sinjar, rose to four deaths and 14 wounded,” Dr. Kifah Mohammed Jassem told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“Two of the wounded were in a critical condition and were referred to the Duhuk Hospital in the Iraqi Kurdistan region,” he added.

“The explosive vehicle attack went off near a liquor store in the predominantly religious minority Yazidi area of Tal Qasab, south of Sinjar district, (120 km) west of Mosul, leaving two, one of them an interpreter for the U.S. forces, killed and 10 others, wounded,” a security source had said.

He added that all of the casualties in the blast were Yazidis.

Yazidis are primarily ethnic Kurds and most live near Mosul, with smaller communities in Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Russia, Syria, and Turkey. They number around 800,000 individuals in total, but estimates of their population size vary, partially due to the Yazidi tradition of secrecy about their religious beliefs.

Sinjar, 120 km northwest of Mosul, is inhabited by Yazidis, a religious minority whose followers are generally situated in northern Iraq.

Some 350,000 Yazidis live in villages around Mosul, 405 km north of Baghdad.

AmR (P)

Unidentified body found in Mosul

June 3, 2010 - 05:37:04

NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq:

The police found the unidentified boy of a man in southwestern Mosul city on Thursday, a police source in Ninewa province said.

“The unidentified body of a man in his 30s was found in the area of al-Akidat, southwestern Mosul, and showed signs of having been shot in the head and chest,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

The source did not give further details.

Mosul, the capital city of the volatile province of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad.

AmR (P)

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