9 Killed as Suicide Car Bomber Hits Iraq Police Post
07 June 2007
Iraqi security officials say a suicide car bomber has killed at least nine people and wounded 22 others at a police post in northwestern Iraq.
Officials say four policemen were among those killed in Thursday's attack in the town of Rabia near the Syrian border, about 90 kilometers west of Mosul.
In Baghdad, a car bomb killed at least three people and wounded eight others near a restaurant in the mainly Shi'ite Sadr City neighborhood.
Earlier, the U.S. military said coalition forces detained 16 suspects in Sadr City believed to be members of a network that helps move weapons and explosives from Iran into Iraq, and sends militants to Iran for terrorist training.
Britain's Defense Ministry says a British soldier was shot and killed while on patrol northwest of Basra.
In the northern city of Mosul, gunmen killed a journalist working with the Aswat al-Iraq (Voices of Iraq) news agency.
Near the western city of Fallujah and in Hit, coalition forces arrested 15 people during operations while targeting al-Qaida in Iraq. Another suspect believed involved in car bombings was arrested in a separate raid in Baghdad.
Wednesday, the U.S. military announced the deaths of four American soldiers in combat operations in Baghdad, Diyala province and the town of Bayji.
The latest casualties have pushed the U.S. death toll in more than four years of war in Iraq toward 3,500.
Some information for this report was provided by AFP and Reuters.
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