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Drive-by shooting, bombings kill 9 in Iraq
A drive-by shooting outside a mosque and a series of bombings Sunday killed nine Iraqis and injured 30 more in and around Baghdad, police and health officials said.
It was another day of persistent violence in Iraq, especially its capital. Even though attacks have dropped sharply from several years ago, low level violence and chronic instability continues.
Gunmen opened fire on worshippers as they were leaving dawn prayers in town of Jurf Al Sakhr just south of the capital, killing three and wounding one, said Maj. Muthana Khalid, the spokesman for Babil province police.
The 4 a.m. shooting comes in the first week of Ramadan, a holy month of daylight fasting for Muslims.
Hours later, rush-hour bombings across Baghdad hit commuters on their way to work, killing four and injuring at least 16.
The deadliest strike came when a roadside bomb exploded at next to a minibus heading from the Shia neighborhood of Sadr City into downtown.
Police said three people were killed, including a police officer, and nine were wounded.
A hospital worker confirmed the casualties.
Earlier, three bombs planted a few yards (meters) away from each other in a downtown business district blew up simultaneously. Police and hospital officials said a bystander was killed and seven injured.
Another roadside bomb targeted a traffic police patrol in eastern Baghdad and injured nine people, a police officer said. Three traffic policemen were among the wounded.
Traffic police, many of whom are unarmed, have become a new target for attackers. More than a dozen have been killed in shootings and bombings across Iraq recently.
An attempted assassination of a senior police official from the northern Ninevah province visiting Baghdad killed one of his bodyguards when a bomb attached to his car exploded in the southern Dora neighborhood.
Another one of these so-called ‘sticky bombs’ succeeded in killing a local commmander of an anti-al-Qaeda militia in the western Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib.
Police said two of his body guards were also injured by the explosion in his personal car.
All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
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