10 killed, 29 wounded in Iraq attacks

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10 killed, 29 wounded in Iraq attacks

English.news.cn 2011-04-30 04:02:44

BAGHDAD, April 29 (Xinhua) -- At least 10 people were killed and 29 others

wounded Friday in separate insurgent attacks across Iraq, police sources said.

Three people were killed and 28 others, including eight policemen, were wounded

when three roadside bombs targeting a police patrol exploded in the Zaafaraniya

area in southeast Baghdad, a police source told Xinhua.

Two police cars and several civilian cars were damaged in the attacks, he added.

In the eastern province of Diyala, unidentified gunmen stormed a house Friday

morning in the area of Buhriz, eight km south of provincial capital city Baquba.

They opened fire with automatic weapons on four brothers who lived in the house,

killing three of them and seriously wounding the fourth.

According to a local police source, the four brothers were working in the

security forces.

Gunmen also stormed the house of Sheikh Bashir Mutlaq Salah, an imam of the

Sunni mosque in the village of Salem Abdul Hameed, 60 km north of Baquba.

The attackers killed Sheikh Salah along with his wife and eight- year-old

daughter, the source said, adding that the security forces had sealed off the

scene and began a raid in search of the perpetrators.

In another incident, unidentified gunmen assassinated a lieutenant colonel in

the Iraqi army Friday morning with silenced weapons near his home in the

Ghazaliya area in west Baghdad.

The latest wave of violence reflects the challenges the Iraqi security forces

are facing in their struggle to restore stability and normalcy to the Iraqi

cities about eight month before the U.S. forces fully withdraw from the country.