Mortar bomb attack kills 14 in Iraqi recruiting centre
Insurgents fired mortar rounds at an Iraqi army recruiting centre in Baghdad today, killing up to 14 people, said police.
The attack was launched near the old Muthana airfield in the heart of the capital.
The centre has frequently been targeted in the rebel campaign to undercut Iraq’s fledgling security services. Fifteen people, most of them applicants for police jobs, were killed by a suicide car bomber in Baqouba yesterday.
Violence erupted elsewhere in the Iraqi capital today, as militants battled security troops and explosions sounded over the city, leaving at least five other Iraqis dead, officials said.
Three police officers were killed in clashes that broke out in Baghdad’s western Ghazaliya district, scene of numerous clashes and assassinations over the past six months.
Also, gunmen sprayed a politician’s car with gunfire, killing two of the man’s sons, an Interior Ministry official said. The politician, Mithal al-Alosi, who heads the Nation party, escaped unharmed.
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