Iraqi Police Killed in Car Bomb Attack
18/05/2005| IslamWeb
Two Iraqi police officers have been killed in a car bomb attack near the oil refinery town of Baiji.
The bomb targeted a US-Iraqi convoy about 3am (2300 GMT) on Wednesday, on the road near Siniya, 200km north of Baghdad, Ali Yusuf, a police captain said.
A surge in violence against mostly Iraqi police and army targets has killed nearly 500 people since the start of May, as the country's government struggles to quell a raging uprising.
Mosul mortar attacks
Mortar attacks by fighters in northern Mosul on Wednesday killed two Iraqis and injured eight others, including seven schoolchildren, police and hospital officials said.
Four of the rounds hit the city's police academy but caused no injuries, police Brigadier-General Wathiq Mohammed said.
One round landed in front of a grocer's shop in the al-Masarif neighbourhood and killed the owner, said Dr Bahaa-Eddine al-Bakri, of the Jamhuri Teaching Hospital.
Another struck a car and killed its driver, al-Bakri said, while seven children walking to school in the al-Jamaa neighbourhood were injured by another.
All of the attacks occurred in eastern Mosul.
Mosul, 360km northwest of Baghdad, is Iraq's third largest city and has in recent months been beset by organised attacks and dozens of car bombs.
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