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Iraq attacks claim 40+
17/12/2007 16:57 - (SA)
Baghdad - At least 44 people were killed and 34 injured in a spate of attacks across Iraq, including insurgents with links to al-Qaeda, security sources and media reports said on Monday.
A suicide bomber riding a motorbike blew himself up near a car park and a market in Baladruz near Baquba, 60km northeast of Baghdad, killing five people and injuring 25, security sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
In another attack in Baquba, four members of a tribal police squad were killed when gunmen attacked their offices in Sahwa district.
In a separate incident, two policemen were injured by a bomb that hit their patrol in the village of Harunyah near Baquba in Diyala province.
In another bout of violence in the restive province, insurgents from the Sunni Islamic State of Iraq attacked two villages of Dojma and Sufayt.
Joint army and police forces backed by members of the local clan of Ubayd clashed with the assailants, killed 35 of them and arrested 15, the commander of Diyala operations, General Abdel-Karim al-Rubay, told the Voices of Iraq VOI news agency.
The Islamic State of Iraq - a Sunni insurgent group set up in 2006 - is made up of seven factions, the largest of which is
al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia.
In Baghdad, four army personnel and three civilians were injured by a bomb on Monday.
The bomb went off hitting an Iraqi army patrol in Zafaranyah district, south of Baghdad, police sources told VOI. - Sapa-dpa
- SAPA
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