Bombs Kill at Least 4 Iraqis Near Mosques in Baquba
14 April 2006
Iraqi police say at least four people were killed in roadside bombings near two Sunni mosques in the city of Baquba, north of Baghdad.
At least five other people were wounded in the blasts, which went off after Friday prayers.
Separately, at least seven policemen were wounded in a suicide car bomb blast near a police station in the northern city of Mosul.
In other news, police say insurgents ambushed a police convoy near Baghdad late Thursday, killing at least six policemen and wounding 10 others. The policemen were from the southern Shi'ite city of Najaf. A senior police official in Najaf said several of his men were missing.
And the U.S. military says one man was killed and three suspects were detained as coalition forces raided a house in Baghdad seeking al-Qaida terrorists.
On Thursday, the U.S. military said American and Iraqi troops killed a wanted terrorist with ties to Osama bin Laden and other senior al-Qaida figures. A statement said Rafid Ibrahim Fattah, also known as Abu Umar al Kurdi, was killed during a raid near Abu Ghraib in western Baghdad late last month.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP, AP and Reuters.
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