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12 die in Iraq attacks
16/12/2007 16:50 - (SA)
Baghdad - At least 12 people were killed and seven injured, most of them policemen, across Iraq on Sunday, while a shop selling alcoholic beverages was blown up in the north, sources said.
Three policemen were killed and two injured in clashes with al-Qaeda fighters in Baquba, security sources told Deutsche Presse Agentur - dpa.
An al-Qaeda fighter was also killed and another captured in the Baquba clashes, 60km north of Baghdad.
The city's general hospital released 31 unidentified bodies for burial, medical sources said.
Two people, including a police officer, were killed in separate attacks in Baldruz, in Diyala province.
In a separate attack in the province, a suicide car bomber injured three civilians near the education department in Baquba.
In the Kafri town, 118km north-east of Baquba, gunmen blew up a shop selling alcoholic beverages overnight, the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency reported.
No casualties were reported. US patrol
Kafri is a disputed area that Diyala, Sulaymanyah and Kikruk lay claim to.
Further west in Anbar province, a bomb hit a US patrol, in the district of Saklawya, north of Fallujah, police sources told Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency.
A military Hummer vehicle was destroyed in the attack.
No further details were immediately available.
Fallujah is the largest city in Anbar province where violence has recently ebbed after clans formed their own police squads known as Awakening Councils to fight Iraqi insurgents and
al-Qaeda fighters from over the borders, especially Syria.
In Haditha, a city in Anbar, members of the Awakening Council killed four fighters who attacked a checkpoint after 15-minute-long clashes with light weapons, VOI reported citing eyewitnesses. Governor survives attack
In a separate incident, the governor of Babil province, Salim al-Muslimayi, survived an armed attack on the Baghdad-Hilla road, VOI reported.
Hilla is 100km south-west of Baghdad.
Armed gunmen attacked the governor's motorcade while he was en route to Baghdad with a delegation from the province's clans to meet the leader of the Shi'ite Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, a spokesperson for the governor, Jawad al-Hasun said.
The assailants fled the scene of the attack after clashes with the governor's guards.
In the neighbouring Karbala province, a policeman was killed and two others were injured by a bomb that hit their patrol, security sources told dpa. - Sapa-dpa
- SAPA
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