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Five killed in Iraqi violence
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 02 - 10 - 2006

At least five people were killed Monday in attacks in Iraq, while authorities continued to find more mutilated bodies in and around Baghdad _ likely victims of the sectarian death squads that roam the capital area.
The headless bodies of seven people were turned in to the Kut morgue, morgue spokesman Hadi al-Itabi said. The bodies were found Sunday in Suwayrah, 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Baghdad.
And in eastern Baghdad, the bodies of two more people were found, police said. They had been shot, their arms and legs bound, and showed signs of torture.
Already in the 24-hour period into Monday morning, a total of 50 bodies, all shot and some with signs of torture, had been found in the capital, said police 1st Lt. Thayer
Mahmoud.
In comments on CNN's «Late Edition» Sunday, U.S.
Ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad said the Iraqi government «in the course of the next two months, has to make progress in terms of containing sectarian violence.»
Elsewhere, a police patrol was ambushed in southern Iraq by gunmen who killed two officers and injured three. The ambush came in the al-Hay area, some 220 kilometers (140miles) south of Baghdad, said police Lt. Mohammed
al-Shimri.
An Iraqi army officer was killed and two were injured in
the western Baghdad neighborhood of Yarmouk when a roadside bomb exploded next to their patrol, police said.
Another roadside bomb in northeastern Baghdad injured
three civilians.
Two young men were found suffering from multiple gunshotwounds in central Baghdad and died on arrival at the hospital, police said.
Late Sunday, insurgents fired mortar rounds at British
targets at the Shat Al-Arab hotel in Basra, police said.
One landed on a nearby home, killing a 7-year-old boy and
his 3-year-old sister and wounding a third child. There
were no reports of British casualties.


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