Joint US-Iraqi troops killed 10 gunmen, wounded another and arrested 16 suspected militants in a military operation in the northern Iraqi city of Baquba, local news reports said. According to Voices of Iraq news agency, a spokesman for Diyala`s so-called Operations Command said that the killing and arrests had taken place on Saturday across Baquba`s Balour village, al-Aaskari neighbourhood and the areas of al-Safar and al-Jalali. Three caches of arms and ammunition were discovered during the operation, Staff Colonel Ragheb Radi al-Omiri told the local agency. In a separate incident, an explosive charge targeting a police patrol reportedly went off in al-Abara district in northern Baquba, the capital of Diyala province, wounding four civilians, DPA reported.
