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Deadly attacks in Iraq
21/08/2004 13:14 - (SA)
Iraq - A senior policeman was shot dead early on Saturday in the city of Ramadi, while three Iraqis were killed and 11 wounded in three homemade bomb explosions across the country, police and medics said.
Colonel Saad Samir al-Dulaimi, head of the crime fighting unit in the Sunni Muslim bastion of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, was gunned down as he left home at around 08:30 (04:30 GMT), said police Captain Ghassan Kadhim.
A doctor at Ramadi hospital confirmed his death.
Further north, in the troubled city of Baquba, a roadside bomb exploded at about the same time, killing a peddler and wounding five dustmen, said police and medical sources.
"The peddler was selling gas cylinders and the others were dustmen. As far as we know, a US convoy was the target but the bomb exploded before it arrived," said First Lieutenant Ali Hussein.
Another Baquba dustman was killed and yet one more wounded when they opened what looked like a US soldier's food package. A bomb inside, disguised as a bottle, exploded in their hands.
A doctor at Baquba general hospital said the incident happend at around 09:00 in the northern part of the city.
Up in Mosul, one national guardsman was killed when a roadside bomb exploded in the path of his convoy in the Al-Baladiat district of the main northern city, said Captain Aws Mohammed Adel.
A hospital doctor said three civilians and two national guardsmen were also wounded in the attack.
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