Insurgent Attacks in Baghdad Kill 10
09 March 2006
Insurgents in Iraq carried out a string of attacks in Baghdad Thursday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 15 others.
The deadliest attack took place in Amariyah, a mainly Sunni Arab neighborhood of the capital, where a roadside bomb blast killed six people and wounded six others. Police say they suspect that attack was aimed at an Iraqi army patrol which was passing by.
Later in the day, a car bomb exploded on a busy street outside the city's main hospital, killing two people and wounding at least nine. Two more people were shot dead in a separate attack in the Iraqi capital.
The latest violence comes one day after unidentified gunmen dressed as Iraqi police commandos stormed the Baghdad offices of a private security company Al-Rawafid and abducted as many as 50 employees.
Earlier, the bodies of at least 20 men, most of them strangled, were found in a Sunni area of the Iraqi capital.
Meanwhile, in its annual review of global human rights, the U.S. State Department said the vast majority of abuses reportedly carried out by Iraqi government agencies were attributed to the police force.
The report released Wednesday said Iraqi police continue to be linked to arbitrary arrests, rape and torture that sometimes lead to the death of detainees. It said police units are often infiltrated and even dominated by sectarian militias.
The United States has been urging Iraq's political factions to form a national unity government which, it believes, would help stem the violence.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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