Roadside bomb attack kills police
A roadside bomb attack has killed two Iraqi policemen northeast of Baghdad, police said today.
The attack also wounded another policeman and a civilian in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of the Iraqi capital, said police Brigadier General Adil Mollan.
On Tuesday gunmen assassinated an Oil Ministry engineer in Baghdad, his brother said, while a policeman and his father were shot dead north of the capital.
Oil Ministry employee Ali Hamid Alwan al-Dulaimy, 31, walked out his house to his car when three men firing pistols from a KIA minibus killed him, his brother, Ahmed Hamid Alwan al-Dulaimy, said.
The engineer was killed in Kazimiyah, northern Baghdad, before trying to go to Baghdad University, where he was studying, his brother added.
In Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, gunmen assassinated policeman Omar Majeed Shakir al-Dosh and his father on Thursday, said Police Lieutenant Qassem Muhammed.
Insurgents have been targeting government employees and policemen in a relentless campaign aimed at disrupting Iraq’s US-backed reconstruction.
