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Spike in iraq violence claims 43 lives { September 18 2006 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)
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Spike in Iraq Violence Claims 43 Lives
The Associated Press
Monday, September 18, 2006; 1:49 PM
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A suicide bomber killed at least 20 people and wounded 17 others on Monday in the northwestern city of Tal Afar as violence around Iraq claimed at least 43 lives, police said. Five bodies were also around Iraq.
Two suicide car bombers attacked a police station on Monday in the capital of Iraq's restive Anbar province, killing at least two police officers and injuring 26 people, the Interior Ministry said.
The al-Arabiya and al-Jazeera television channels, however, reported that 13 people had been killed in the blast in the western part of Ramadi, the provincial capital.
The ministry said 18 of the 26 injured were police officers.
No further details were immediately available. U.S.-led Coalition forces said they were looking into the report.
Tal Afar police chief Brig. Sabah Hamidi said that a man wearing an vest loaded with explosives blew himself up in an open-air market just before dark. There were no Iraqi or U.S.-led security forces in the area at the time. No other details were immediately available.
Bombers and gunmen killed 12 people in a tense city northeast of Baghdad on Monday as Iraqi security forces prepared to further tighten security ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, when violence traditionally spikes across Iraq.
In the violence around Baqouba, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of the capital, three Iraqi army soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb blast that targeted their patrol. A gunman on a motorcycle killed a woman walking down a street and, in a separate incident, a group attacked a family in their home killing two brothers. In Muqdadiyah, northeast, an armed group attacked and killed two civilians.
Gunmen attacked a nine-member Shiite family in Baqouba as they prepared to leave the city for Baghdad, killing four 4 people including a young girl.
In other violence, four policemen were killed as their patrol ambushed Monday morning by unidentified gunmen in the northern city of Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police Maj. Ahmed Khalid said. Police also found the bodies of two women shot in the head and chest.
Also Monday, two civilians were killed and seven others injured when a mortar round slammed into a street in Mahmoudiya, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police 1st Lt. Thair Mohamod said.
In Fadhil, a mixed neighborhood in northwestern Baghdad, two policemen were injured Monday night when they tried to curb clashes between two unidentified gunmen that left three gunmen injured, police 1st. Lt. Ahmed Mohamed Ali said.
In southern Basra, police found the body of Lt. Col. Fawzi Abdul Karim al-Mousawi, chief of the city's anti-terrorism department. Al-Mousawi was kidnapped late Sunday in front of his house by a group of armed men using two cars. He had been handcuffed and shot seven times.
Gunmen killed a former member of the defunct Ba'th Party in Hillah, south of Baghdad.
Police in the capital also found the bodies of three men in eastern Baghdad. All were bound, blindfolded and had been shot in the head.
© 2006 The Associated Press
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