Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Five killed in several attacks in Iraq

At least five people including a senior Iraqi Ministry of Education and three women, were killed Tuesday in separate attacks by armed groups in Iraq, police said. The sources told Efe that an explosive device blew up the car he was driving a director of the Iraqi Ministry of Education Abdel Amir Hussein, for the Al Dura, south of Baghdad.

The explosion caused the immediate death of Hussein and wounding two others who went by the place at the time of the blast. In another incident, gunmen stormed a house in southern Kirkuk, 250 kilometers north of Baghdad, killing two sisters and a relative who was visiting, said the sources, who did not specify the motive for the murder.

The father of the sisters, who works at a gas station, was not at home during the attack, the sources said, adding that police have opened an investigation into the incident. On the other hand, one person died and another was injured by the explosion of a roadside bomb vehicle they were traveling through the city of Al Fallujah, 50 kilometers west of Baghdad.

Another bomb exploded near a checkpoint at the Ministry of Finance in the Al Mustansariya, north of the capital, wounding four guards and two civilians this department

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