At least eight people were killed Saturday and 17 wounded in separate attacks in Iraq, Iraqi officials and media reports said. Detentions and arrests were also reported. In Samara, some 125 kilometres north of Baghdad, joint US-Iraqi forces killed four militants and wounded three, security sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. In the Northern city of Mosul, four Awakening Councils members were killed and nine injured when an explosive device targeted their patrol, the Iraqi News Agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) reported.
