Three killed, 21 injured in mortar attacks northeast of Baghdad
5/9/2006 16:46
Three people were killed and 21 others wounded in two mortar barrages
today near Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, local police
said.
"Several mortar rounds landed on the town of Bani Sa'ad near Baquba,
killing a civilian and wounded 14 others," the media office of the provincial
police said in a statement.
Separately, a mortar barrage hit another village
near Baquba, killing two civilians and wounding seven others, the statement
added.
Baquba is the provincial capital of Iraq's Diyala province within
Iraq's so-called Sunni Triangle, a bastion of sectarian violence and insurgency
against the US-led occupation.
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