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| A soldier inspects damaged vehicles at the site of a bomb attack in the city of Ramadi, 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad, August 25, 2010. A series of deadly bomb attacks targeting Iraqi police forces have left 45 people dead and 180 injured across the country, officials and local news reports said on Wednesday. (Xinhua/AFP Photo) |
Also in the province, a suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi army patrol in the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, killing a soldier and a civilian and wounding seven people, including two soldiers, the police said.
In a separate incident in Fallujah, two gunmen were killed while they were planting a roadside bomb in the city, he said.
In Iraq's eastern Diyala province, a suicide bomber struck the office in the town of Maqdadiyah, some 100 km northeast of Baghdad, killing three people and wounding 17 others, 12 of them were policemen and office employees, a provincial police source said.
Another bomb detonated outside a hospital some 100 meters away from the government office and wounded six people, the source said, adding that the second blast was designed to hit the wounded victims of the suicide attack and the security forces which will arrive at the scene after the first blast.
Also in the province, five roadside bombs targeted the Iraqi police in two towns near the provincial capital city of Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, killing a policeman and two civilians and wounding 12 people, including five policemen, the source said.
In Basra, some 550 km south of Baghdad, a booby-trapped car at a parking lot near the al-Ashar police station near the crowded Um al-Broum Square in central the city, detonated in the morning, killing one person and wounding at least ten people, the police said.
Some 15 police vehicles and civilian cars were seen destroyed or charred by the blast, he said.
Elsewhere, a suicide car bomber struck a police checkpoint in the city of Karbala, some 110 km south of Baghdad, killing a policeman and wounding 29 people, the police said.
In Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk, a car bomb went off in al- Domiz neighborhood targeted a police patrol, killing a civilian and wounding eight others, a local police source said.
In Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, a suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi army base, wounding three soldiers, while another car bomb detonated in western the city killed three civilians and wounding 13 others, a local police source said.
Wednesday's wave of violence came a day after the U.S. military said that its troops would be reduced to below 50,000, ahead of the deadline set by U.S. President Barack Obama for his troops to end combat operations in Iraq. Washington said that the remaining U.S. troops will remain in Iraq to conduct support and training missions.
Five months after the war-torn country held its parliamentary elections on March 7, violence and sporadic high-profile attacks are still common in Iraqi cities which shaped a setback to the Iraqi government's efforts to restore normality.
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