Arrests and raids were reported in Iraq on Saturday while terrorist attacks continued to claim lives, DPA reported. In one incident, five Iraqi civilians were killed when two explosive charges detonated successively in Kirkuk, northern Iraq. Around 40 people were wounded in the explosions. Also in Kirkuk, 250 kilometres north of Baghdad, police sources said that a joint US-Iraqi army raid led to the capture of 38 suspected terrorists, 15 of them were previously wanted by authorities. On a different note, a day earlier, thirteen gunmen and a child were reported killed. In the overnight incident, US forces fired back at "insurgents" who allegedly launched an attack against the multinational forces from a Sunni mosque in Baghdad's northern province of al-Tarmiyah, according to the report.
