Five killed in Iraq attacks
2005-08-30 11:53
Baghdad - Five people, including four security personnel, were killed in separate rebel attacks in Iraq on Tuesday, police said.
Mohammad Rashad, a lieutenant colonel with the country's special oil protection force, was shot dead by gunmen in front of his house in oil-rich Kirkuk in northern Iraq. His bodyguard was also killed, police said.
Gunmen also shot dead Major Diya Hilal Taha, chief of al-Ghazalia police station in western Baghdad when they opened fire on his patrol. His three bodyguards were wounded.
One policeman was killed and four others wounded when a suicide car bomber blew himself up next to a police checkpoint close to al-Tharthar police station west of Samarra.
A mortar fell on a house in the village of Albuahil east of Tikrit, ousted dictator Saddam Hussein's hometown, killing one and wounding another.
- AFP