Iraq shootings after 22 confirmed dead in Iraq truck bombing
Shootings by suspected insurgents killed at least 12 Iraqis today, including 11 who were driving to work in a company bus and the director of public relations at Iraq’s Defence Ministry.
Casualty figures from a suicide truck bomb attack in the northern city of Tal Afar last night also rose to 22 dead and 134 wounded.
The US military flew some of the wounded to other cities when the local hospital was overwhelmed.
Today’s worst attack occurred about 9am local time near Baqouba, 40 miles north-east of Baghdad, when suspected insurgents riding in a car opened fire on a bus, killing at least 11 Iraqi passengers and wounding three, police said.
The victims were heading to work at a state-run electronics company that makes products such as television sets, and the bus was operated by their company, police said.
In Baghdad, suspected insurgents riding in two BMWs assassinated a Defence Ministry official as he drove to work at about 8.15am local time, police said.
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