Iraq insurgents kill four as bus station attacked
Iraqi insurgents fired at least six mortar rounds towards a US military base today, but hit a bus station instead, killing four Iraqi civilians and wounding 21, officials said.
None of the shells hit the base near Musayyib city, which is 40 miles south of Baghdad, the US military said.
Police Captain Muthana Khalid said a total of 12 mortars were fired and that most hit the bus station during the morning commute.
US forces sent a five-man medical team to the bus station, including a doctor, to help the wounded, and Iraqi forces brought medical supplies, the US military said in a statement.
One seriously wounded civilian was airlifted to a US hospital, while the others were treated at a local hospital, the US military said.
In another attack today, a suicide car bomb exploded near an Iraqi army checkpoint, wounding four Iraqi soldiers, three US soldiers and seven Iraqi civilians, the US military said.
The attack occurred outside Tikrit, which is 80 miles north of Baghdad, said US Major Richard Goldenberg. He said the injuries the US soldiers suffered were not life threatening.
In the capital, Lt Col Ala’a Khalil Ibrahim, who worked in the visa section of the Interior Ministry, was shot dead on the way to work by gunmen in Baghdad’s eastern section of al-Shaab, police officials said.
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