Six killed in Iraq attacks

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2012-08-11T23:45:57+05:00

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Bombings and a shooting against Iraqi security forces, a mosque and a local official killed six people and wounded dozens of others, security and medical officials said. “Three policemen were killed and two others wounded by a bomb targeting their patrol in Al-Muqdadiyah this morning,” said a police Lt colonel in the town, which lies in restive Diyala. Dr Ahmed Ibrahim from the main hospital in the provincial capital Baquba, 60 km north of Baghdad, confirmed the toll. On the outskirts of the main northern city of Mosul, meanwhile, a suicide car bomb near a mosque killed two people and wounded 40 others, police First Lt Salim Metta and Dr Salam Bahnam from Mosul General Hospital said.

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