Gunmen kill civilians in Iraq
28/07/2006 - 13:33:53Gunmen killed two civilians in Tikrit who were employed by US troops, while reports of sectarian attacks elsewhere in Iraq remained low, police said today.
The drive-by shooting occurred in the al-Qadissya neighbourhood of Tikrit, about 80 miles north of Baghdad, police said.
Gunmen in the nearby town of Beiji also killed a man who worked for a railway company.
Elsewhere, a bomb tore through a pipeline southwest of Samarra, about 60 miles north of Baghdad.
The pipeline carries oil from Iraq’s largest refinery in Beiji to Baghdad’s Dora neighbourhood, police said.
A rocket also exploded in central Baghdad at midmorning, injuring three, police said.
The attack came during a four-hour driving ban police hoped would hold down violence during prayers.
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