A roadside bomb went off near an army convoy and wounded one soldier in southern Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, a source in the Baquba security operations centre said. Meanwhile, a police officer was killed and another wounded when a suspected militant threw a hand grenade during a raid on his house in central Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad, said Ali Ghanim al-Maliki, the head of the Basra provincial council security committee. The suspect was killed, according to a report of Reuters.
