Iraq attacks kill at least eight
16 Oct 2012 6:34 AM IST
A spate of shootings and bombings targeting Iraqi security forces north of Baghdad on Monday killed at least eight people, while a prisoner on death row escaped from a police station south of the capital.
The attacks, which killed four policemen and three anti-Qaeda militiamen, came after a deadly bombing targeted Iraqi police last night. On Monday’s haviest toll came in the town of Tuz Khurmatu, 175 kilometres north of Baghdad.
Gunmen attacked a checkpoint in the town centre, killing two policemen and wounding two more before fleeing the scene, a security official said. A doctor confirmed the toll.
Also in Tuz Khurmatu, a car bomb at one of the main entrances to the town killed a policeman and wounded six other people - five civilians and a policeman, the officials said.
In another gun attack, militants broke into the home of two brothers, both of them anti-Qaeda militiamen, in the desert region west of the city of Samarra, which lies around 110 kilometres north of Baghdad.
The attacks, which killed four policemen and three anti-Qaeda militiamen, came after a deadly bombing targeted Iraqi police last night. On Monday’s haviest toll came in the town of Tuz Khurmatu, 175 kilometres north of Baghdad.
Gunmen attacked a checkpoint in the town centre, killing two policemen and wounding two more before fleeing the scene, a security official said. A doctor confirmed the toll.
Also in Tuz Khurmatu, a car bomb at one of the main entrances to the town killed a policeman and wounded six other people - five civilians and a policeman, the officials said.
In another gun attack, militants broke into the home of two brothers, both of them anti-Qaeda militiamen, in the desert region west of the city of Samarra, which lies around 110 kilometres north of Baghdad.
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