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Violence claims 27 Iraqis
27/10/2005 19:01 - (SA)
Baghdad - At least 27 people, most of them police, were killed in clashes with civilians in Nahrawan Township on Thursday, said Iraqi army sources.
Captain Ahmed Jassin of the Iraqi army said forces belonging to two brigades of the interior ministry launched a raid in Al-Haj village of Nahrawan to release a kidnapped person.
He said the police were in civilian uniform, prompting the villagers to open fire, thinking that the police were terrorists. Jassim's army brigade intervened to end the fighting.
He said the severe clashes, which took place killed 25 policemen and two civilians. Four villagers were arrested.
Suicide car bomb blast
In other incidents, three Iraqi soldiers were killed and at least 11 others, mostly civilians, were wounded in an attack by insurgents on an Iraqi army checkpoint.
The attack came on the heels of a suicide car bomb blast, which killed two Iraqi civilians in central Baghdad.
The attack on the Iraqi soldiers took place at al-Madain, 15km south of Baghdad. Witnesses said insurgents threw a hand grenade from a passing car at an Iraqi army checkpoint.
Besides the three soldiers killed, four other soldiers were wounded, along with seven civilians standing nearby.
Earlier, two civilians were killed and eight wounded in a suicide car bomb attack.
US soldiers escape
Police said a car bomber detonated his car near a United States military convoy near the National Theatre building.
The blast also damaged three cars as well as buildings and trade shops nearby. However, the US soldiers escaped without injury.
In further bloodshed, a police lieutenant in Kirkuk was shot dead by insurgents outside his home late on Wednesday.
Police identified the victim as Ardjman Abdullah, who last month had escaped an assassination attempt with slight injuries. Abdullah's brother, who worked for the Iraqi army, was murdered last month.
Abdullah was a member of the Turkoman People's Party and had maintained strong contacts with all the various ethnic groups in Kirkuk.
Secretary general killed
In Amara, south of Baghdad, a Shi'ite party leader was assassinated late on Wednesday.
Wasif Lazim Shawka, secretary general of the Islamic Movement in Iraq, was killed by gunmen as he was driving his car with electoral commission official, Ahmed Barzan, in Amara.
Hospital sources said that in Baquba, four policemen and a 10-year-old child were wounded in two separate attacks.
In Tikrit, the police said officer Ali Jassin was kidnapped on Wednesday and his body was found on Thursday in Tuz Khurmatu.
The police said one civilian was killed and another four injured, including three women in mortar attacks on their house in Balad on Thursday.
Four Iraqis, one of them a soldier, were seriously injured in a remote-controlled car bomb that was apparently targeting an Iraqi army patrol in Hawija.
- SAPA
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