Security incidents in Iraq July 3
03 Jul 2005 16:01:04 GMT
Source: Reuters
BAGHDAD, July 3 (Reuters) - Following are security incidents reported in Iraq on Saturday as of 1500 GMT. U.S. and Iraqi forces are battling an insurgency by Sunni Arabs against the Shi'ite and Kurdish-led government in Baghdad.
New or updated entries are marked with an asterisk.
* BAGHDAD - Egypt's top envoy in Baghdad, Ihab el-Sherif, was kidnapped by gunmen on Saturday evening, an Egyptian diplomat said on Sunday. Sherif was expected to become the first Arab diplomat in Iraq to hold the full title of ambassador.
* RAMADI - A suicide car bomber drove at a U.S. checkpoint in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, and swerved away into a house after U.S. troops opened fire, the U.S. military said. The military said two soldiers were wounded. Eyewitnesses said four civilians were also hurt.
* BAGHDAD - Police in Kirkuk, northern Iraq, said they had recovered three headless bodies, one also lacking legs, at two locations in the city.
* MIQDADIYA - A mortar attack targeting an Iraqi army base wounded 10 civilians in Miqdadiya, northeast of the capital, police sources said.
* BAGHDAD - Abdel Kadhem Abdullah, a member of the Shi'ite Badr movement, was assassinated in southern Baghdad, police and political colleagues said.
* TIKRIT - Hundreds of people in Saddam Hussein's Sunni Arab heartland home town demonstrated to mark last week's first anniversary of the handover of sovereignty by U.S.-led occupying authorities and to demand the release of detainees.
KIRKUK - A car bomb blasted a police patrol at Riyadh, near the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk in the north, killing two policemen and wounding one, police Lieutenant Colonel Ammar Ahmed said.
HILLA - Two suicide bombers, by one police account dressed in Iraqi army uniform, killed nine people and wounded 33, most of them from the security forces, in coordinated attacks in Hilla, police and U.S.-led military forces said, giving further details of an incident reported late on Saturday. One bomber wearing an explosive vest entered a restaurant opposite police headquarters in the mostly Shi'ite city 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad. By the police account, a second bomber joined survivors who fled and blew himself up among them three minutes later. Polish troops who command U.S.-led forces in the area said five policemen and a Iraqi soldier were among the dead.
(Reporting by Haider Abbas in Hilla, Aref Mohammed in Kirkuk, Waleed Ibrahim and Alastair Macdonald in Baghdad, Faris al-Mehdawi in Baquba, Ali Mashhadani in Ramadi and Amer Amery in Tikrit) |
