IRAQ: Attacks in Baghdad kill at least nine people, including seven police officers

Record ID: 354291

  • Title: IRAQ: Attacks in Baghdad kill at least nine people, including seven police officers
  • Date: 7th June 2006
  • Summary: (W2) BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JUNE 7, 2006) (REUTERS) IRAQI POLICE VEHICLES DRIVING TO BLAST SITE IN MANSOUR DISTRICT POLICEMAN SECURING BLAST SITE
  • Embargoed: 22nd June 2006 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Defence / Military
  • Reuters ID: LVA1G5YQMIWX0RCKDQDGUTGKNIJ4
  • Story Text: Gunmen in a car shot dead four policemen and wounded another in an attack on their patrol in Baghdad on Wednesday (June 7), police sources said.
    They said the drive-by shooting took place in the capital's western Mansour district.
    Meanwhile, two police officers were killed when a bomb struck their vehicle while driving in southeastern Baghdad neighbourhood on Wednesday, witnesses said.
    They said that a policeman was also wounded in the attack that took place in Zayouna neighbourhood.
    Insurgents often launch attacks against Iraqi security forces as part of a campaign to topple the U.S.-backed, Shi'ite -led government.
    Sectarian violence has mounted in the country since the February bombing of a Shi'ite Muslim shrine touched off a wave of revenge killings that sparked widespread fears of civil war.
    Earlier U.S. forces raided a house northeast of Baghdad, killing two members of one family and wounding four others, witnesses said.
    They said U.S. forces stormed the house of the family house in Sadat village, 80 km west of Baquba after midnight as the family were sleeping on the rooftop of their house. Witnesses said U.S forces opened fire, killing Khaz'al Ismail and one of his sons while they were sleeping.
    Khaz'al's wife, said U.S. troops knocked out the door and used bombs to destroy the house.
    "We were asleep, God knows we know nothing of when the attack started. We tried to get down but we could not so we climbed up the wall of our neighbour. They (U.S.) troops took money and other stuff. I swear by God, the Americans took them. I was at the hospital, all of them died, a whole family and I suffered shrapnel wounds in different parts of my body," she told Reuters television.
    U.S. Marines stand accused of killing 24 unarmed Iraqis in the western town of Haditha last November.
    In Washington, a number of U.S. senators are demanding that President George W. Bush's administration should quickly establish what occurred, saying only swift action could salvage the image of the military and U.S. international relations.
    The Senate Armed Services Committee plans hearings soon on last November's incident and to determine whether the military tried to cover it up.
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