Gunmen attack Iraqi hospital, killing three police officers
7/12/2005 17:13
Three police officers were killed today when gunmen broke into a hospital
in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police said.
The gunmen were attempting
to free an injured man who had been arrested for plotting to murder a judge in
the trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
The attack occurred at
Al-Jumhuriya Hospital in Kirkuk, 290 km north of Baghdad. Six police officers
were also injured in the attack.
The captured suspect was one of the eight
Sunni Arabs who, on Nov. 26, allegedly plotted to kill Raed Juhi, the
investigating judge who collected evidence and interviewed witnesses concerned
in the trial of Saddam Hussein.
Saddam Hussein's trial was expected to enter
its third day on Wednesday.
The attack came one day after a suicide bombing
in Baghdad's major police academy, which killed 43 people, the deadliest one in
the Iraqi capital in months.
Xinhua
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