Eight killed in Baghdad bombings
Explosions killed eight people in Baghdad today, six of them when a parcel blew up in a central market and two when a bomb went off in a minibus in the east of the capital, police said. At least 22 people were wounded.
A former military officer, meanwhile, was gunned down outside his home in Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, according to police Col. Abdul-Karim Ahmed.
In Taji, 12 miles north of Baghdad, 16 workers were kidnapped as they moved furniture into the Technology Research Centre. At least 80 people were kidnapped in the same region last week. Since then about 50 have been freed by police or released by the kidnappers.
In Bartilla, southeast of Mosul, a car bomb near the office of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, killed two members of the Shiite organisation and wounded four, Ahmed said.
Three off-duty policemen were gunned down in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad. The men were walking to the city bus station when gunmen opened fire from a passing car, according to an officer in the city’s Joint Operations Centre.
