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Baby among 22 dead as Iraq violence flares
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 25 - 06 - 2008


Twenty-two people were dead and hundreds more
injured by late Wednesday in five separate incidents over the past 24
hours in Iraq, officials reported, according to dpa.
In the latest incident, three people including a baby were killed
while 12 others were injured when a bus exploded in the Shiite-
dominated city of Karbala, 100 kilometres south of the Iraqi capital.
Eyewitnesses told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that an explosive
device was inside the small bus.
In Baquba, 60 km north of Baghdad, an Iraqi soldier was killed and
three others wounded when an empty house they were searching
exploded.
Violence in Baquba, the capital of restive Diyala province, has
continued unabated despite an ongoing offensive jointly mounted
by US and Iraqi troops.
Three US soldiers and an interpreter were killed in "an improvised
explosive device attack" in the province on Tuesday evening, the US
military said.
The attack brings the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq this
week to seven. At least 25 US soldiers have been killed so far in
June.
The killing of the three soldiers came shortly after two other
soldiers, two US government employees and six Iraqis were killed in a
bomb blast at a council meeting in Baghdad's Sadr City district, the
bastion of the Shiite Mahdi Army militia.
In Mosul, the capital of Nineveh, 90 civilians were injured in the
car bomb attack which were blamed on the al-Qaeda in Iraq
group.
In another incident, five people from the same family were killed
on Wednesday in a US airstrike on their home in a town near Tikrit,
170 km north of Baghdad, witnesses told dpa.
The US airstrike killed an Iraqi man, his wife and three children,
all of whom were aged under 12, the witnesses said. Two people in a
nearby house were also injured.
Meanwhile, Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki gave Shiite
militants in the southern Maysan province a week to surrender.
The deadline for armed groups to surrender starts from Wednesday,
the spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Defence, Mohamed al-Askari
said.
Iraqi troops launched a crackdown nearly a week ago in Amarah, the
capital of Maysan, targeting Shiite militants loyal to radical cleric
Moqtada al-Sadr.
The operation is the fourth of its kind this year in which
al-Maliki sent troops to provinces to clear them of Shiite or Sunni
insurgents.
Basra, Sadr City and Mosul have been the sites of major security
offensives.


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