Libertarian_Guard
23rd October 2013, 07:58 PM
At least 19 police officers and three civilians have been killed in a series of attacks overnight in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, officials say.
The first saw a suicide bomber ram an explosives-filled car into a checkpoint in Rutba, 110km (70 miles) from the Syrian border, killing five policemen.
Another bomber blew up his vehicle near police deployed at a bypass, killing four officers and three lorry drivers.
Attacks by gunmen elsewhere in Anbar left seven other officers dead.
They opened fire on several checkpoints west of Ramadi, along the main road that links the capital Baghdad to Jordan and Syria.
Further attacks on Wednesday in and around Baghdad killed at least seven people and wounded about 20 others. Officials said two of those killed were policeman who were shot while going to work.
They said one bomb exploded during the morning rush hour in a commercial street in the city's Amariya district. Another bomb went off at an outdoor market in the Abu Ghraib area, to the west.
In the market town of Madain, south of Baghdad, a bomb killed at least four people and wounded at least nine others.
Elsewhere, a gunman shot dead six people people in the northern city of Mosul, according to the AFP news agency.
The UN says 979 people - including 127 police and 92 military personnel - were killed in violent attacks in September, bringing the number killed this year to 5,740.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24631099
The first saw a suicide bomber ram an explosives-filled car into a checkpoint in Rutba, 110km (70 miles) from the Syrian border, killing five policemen.
Another bomber blew up his vehicle near police deployed at a bypass, killing four officers and three lorry drivers.
Attacks by gunmen elsewhere in Anbar left seven other officers dead.
They opened fire on several checkpoints west of Ramadi, along the main road that links the capital Baghdad to Jordan and Syria.
Further attacks on Wednesday in and around Baghdad killed at least seven people and wounded about 20 others. Officials said two of those killed were policeman who were shot while going to work.
They said one bomb exploded during the morning rush hour in a commercial street in the city's Amariya district. Another bomb went off at an outdoor market in the Abu Ghraib area, to the west.
In the market town of Madain, south of Baghdad, a bomb killed at least four people and wounded at least nine others.
Elsewhere, a gunman shot dead six people people in the northern city of Mosul, according to the AFP news agency.
The UN says 979 people - including 127 police and 92 military personnel - were killed in violent attacks in September, bringing the number killed this year to 5,740.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24631099