IRAQ: Senior policeman is one of three people dead after a car bomb targetted a police patrol in the Iraqi town of Baiji

Record ID: 356787

  • Title: IRAQ: Senior policeman is one of three people dead after a car bomb targetted a police patrol in the Iraqi town of Baiji
  • Date: 30th June 2010
  • Summary: BAIJI , NORTH OF BAGHDAD, IRAQ (JUNE 29, 2010) (REUTERS) IRAQI POLICEMEN AND SECURITY PERSONNEL GATHERING AT BLAST SCENE WRECKAGE OF CAR BOMB ON GROUND MORE OF WRECKAGE / POLICEMEN WORKER MOVING DEBRIS OF CAR BOMB (SOUNDBITE) (Arabic) SHAKIR HAMEED , MUNICIPALITY WORKER , SAYING: "A car bomb went off next to Lieutenant Colonel Hussein , the head of the intelligence d
  • Embargoed: 15th July 2010 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Police
  • Reuters ID: LVA7NKLHG8AN1CEQN6JLDG114HEU
  • Story Text: Three people were killed, including a senior police officer, and thirteen wounded on Tuesday (June 29) when a car bomb went off as a police patrol was passing in a town north of Baghdad.
    Police said the explosion happened in the centre of Baiji, 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad.
    They have since made 20 arrests in the area.
    Municipality worker Shakir Hameed was sent to the scene to clear the debris.
    He said the bomb exploded next to Lieutenant Colonel Hussein, the head of the intelligence department for Baiji police.
    "We condemn this attack," he said.
    Overall violence in Iraq has dropped sharply since the height of sectarian carnage of 2006-07, but bombings and killings continue on a daily basis.
    Tensions have been heightened since an inconclusive general election in March, which produced no outright winner and as yet no new government.
    In a separate incident on Tuesday, an Interior Ministry source said a brigadier general in the Iraqi army was killed by a roadside bomb in the Kadhamiya district of northern Baghdad.
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