Sunday, April 01, 2007
Round-up of violence across Iraq
Security
(Reuters) - Security developments in Iraq at 1500 GMT on Sunday (follow link for full list).
* denotes new or updated item.
* MOSUL - Two suicide truck bombs killed two people and wounded 17 when they exploded at an Iraqi army base east of the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (242 miles) north of Baghdad, on Sunday, police said. Police said the two dead were civilians while most of the wounded were soldiers.
* BAGHDAD - Omar al-Jubouri, a member of the Sunni Islamic Party and a parliament member, escaped a roadside bomb attack in the Yarmouk district in western Baghdad. No one in his motorcade was hurt, the office of the Islamic Party said. Police said two of his guards were wounded.
* denotes new or updated item.
* MOSUL - Two suicide truck bombs killed two people and wounded 17 when they exploded at an Iraqi army base east of the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (242 miles) north of Baghdad, on Sunday, police said. Police said the two dead were civilians while most of the wounded were soldiers.
* BAGHDAD - Omar al-Jubouri, a member of the Sunni Islamic Party and a parliament member, escaped a roadside bomb attack in the Yarmouk district in western Baghdad. No one in his motorcade was hurt, the office of the Islamic Party said. Police said two of his guards were wounded.
JIBLA - Gunmen killed an official in the office of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in the town of Jibla, near the southern city of Hilla, on Saturday, police said. Gunmen also killed the guard of a Sunni mosque and set the mosque on fire in Jibla, police said.
Labels: Iraqi Army base, Iraqi Islamic Party, Jibla, Mosul, Omar al-Jubouri, suicide truck bomber, Sunni mosques
