Bombings kill Iraq officer, 10 others
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BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber killed six people yesterday, including an Iraqi policeman, in an attack on security forces in a former insurgent stronghold in Iraq’s western Anbar Province, police said. A Baghdad bombing killed five other people.
The attack in the western city of Ramadi was carried out by a suicide bomber driving a minibus who struck a checkpoint of Iraqi soldiers and police, killing a policeman and five civilians, said a police officer. Earlier reports said six policemen were among the dead.
The attack injured 19 others, including five officers, said the officer in Ramadi, some 70 miles west of Baghdad. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
Anbar used to be a stronghold of the Sunni insurgency but has been relatively quiet in recent months, partly because Sunni tribal leaders joined with US-led forces to fight extremists.
Last evening, a bomb in Baghdad’s Sadr City district killed five people and injured another 23, all of them men, a police officer and a hospital official said on condition of anonymity. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
The bomb was hidden in a plastic bag and exploded close to a tent being used for the funeral service of a Shi’ite tribal leader’s wife, the officials said. Only men were in the tent, while female mourners were in a house.
In Baghdad, dozens of mourners attended the funeral of the two traffic policemen who were killed in eastern Baghdad.
Separately, one person was killed and nine were wounded when a bomb exploded near an Internet cafe late Tuesday in south Baghdad. The explosion in a Shi’ite enclave in the mainly Sunni neighborhood of Dora damaged the cafe and a shop.
