Posts Tagged ‘ casualties ’

"A total of 11 people were killed and 26 others wounded in separate attacks in Iraq on Thursday, the police said. Unidentified gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles attacked a checkpoint manned jointly by the army and a pro-government militia in the town of Garma near the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity." (05/24/13)

"Iraqi officials say gunmen have shot dead four soldiers at an army checkpoint north of Baghdad. Two police officers say four others were wounded in the Thursday morning attack in the town of Taji. The militants fled the area after a brief clash without suffering casualties." (05/23/13)

"Unknown gunmen shot dead at least seven women and five men at a brothel in Baghdad on Wednesday, security and medical officials said. The attack took place in the capital's eastern area of Zayouna, where a number of brothels are located. No further details were immediately available on the shooting." (05/22/13)

"Attacks in Iraq have killed at least 12 people and wounded dozens, officials have said, after a bloody day that claimed more than 70 lives across the country. A suicide bomber set off his explosives-laden vest on Tuesday at a military checkpoint in the town of Tarmiyah, 50km north of Baghdad. Fighters opened fire at the troops after the blasts, killing three soldiers and wounding nine, a police official said. Meanwhile, in the northern city of Tuz Khormato, two parked car bombs went off simultaneously, killing three civilians and wounding 38 people, said Mayor Shalal Abdool." (05/21/13)

"A string of car bombs and shootings tore through Shiite and Sunni areas of Iraq on Monday, killing at least 57 people and escalating fears of a return to widespread sectarian bloodletting, officials said. The attacks, some of which hit market places and crowded bus stops during the busy morning hours, are the latest in a recent spike in violence in Iraq that has targeted both Sunni and Shiite civilians and pushed the death toll over the past week to more than 200 people." (05/20/13)

"Multiple car bombs have exploded in Baghdad, killing at least 12 people in mainly Shi'ite districts of the Iraqi capital. The blasts Thursday hit the Sadr City and Kamaliya areas, leaving at least 18 other people wounded. The attacks follow a wave of bombings Wednesday that also struck mainly Shi'ite neighborhoods. Those blasts killed at least 33 people." (05/16/13)

"Gunmen using silenced weapons attacked at least nine liquor stores in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 12 people, police and medical sources said. Police sources said the attack targeted a row of stores selling alcohol in Zayona district of eastern Baghdad, which has a majority Shiite population." (05/15/13)

"Iraqi authorities say a car bombing and shooting have killed four people in the country's north and west. Police say in the deadliest attack a suicide car bomber struck an army checkpoint near Ramadi, killing three soldiers and wounding seven others. ... Earlier Monday, drive-by shooters killed Abdul-Elah Hadi, a local council member in the town of Riyadh, said Kirkuk provincial police." (05/14/13)

"Gunfire attacks in Iraq on Sunday killed five people, including a provincial official in a southern city. ... gunmen in a speeding car opened fire on an outdoor vegetable market in the town of Mishahda, killing three civilians and wounding three others. The town is 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of the capital. Also, police said drive-by shooters killed a police officer driving his car in Baghdad's northern neighborhood of Shaab. In the southern oil hub of Basra, police said gunmen shot and killed Ali Hussein, a Sunni member of the Basra Provincial Council, as he was leaving a mosque after night prayers." (05/13/13)