Many Iraqis Killed in Bomb Attacks
14/06/2005| IslamWeb
At least 28 people have been killed in two separate bomb attacks in Iraq, while 13 bodies found in Khaldiya have been taken to Baghdad.
In the first of Tuesday's bombs, 10 Iraqis, including two children, were killed and seven wounded by a car bomb north of Baghdad, according to a toll provided by security and hospital sources.
"Ten people were killed in all and seven wounded," an Iraqi army officer said, adding casualties suffered by his soldiers to an earlier report of six dead and four wounded.
"The dead and wounded soldiers belonged to a unit called in as reinforcements in the town of Kanaan following a mortar attack against a police station.
"The soldiers were hit by the explosion of a car bomb that was parked nearby," the officer said.
"Two policemen and four civilians, including two children below the age of 10, were killed and four civilians were wounded when the car exploded as a police patrol passed by," another police officer added.
A hospital director in Baquba said his teams had treated four people for wounds after they were brought in from the nearby town.
Kirkuk blast
In the other attack, a bomb exploded outside a bank in Kirkuk and killed 18 people, including pensioners and child street vendors selling groceries, police said.
Captain Salam Zangana, an official at a hospital where the victims were being brought, said another 53 people were wounded.
The bomb was planted near a queue of people waiting outside the Rafidayn Bank in downtown Kirkuk, 290km north of Baghdad, police Colonel Shiraz Muhammad said.
The 9am (0500 GMT) blast was caused by a roadside bomb planted outside the bank and two cars parked nearby were set aflame, Muhammad said.
Beheaded
Also on Tuesday, a doctor reported that the bodies of 13 Iraqi men, some beheaded, had been brought to a Baghdad hospital.
Dr Muhammad Jawad of western Baghdad's Yarmuk hospital said the bodies - either decapitated or shot in the head - were brought to the hospital late on Monday from near Khaldiya, a town 120km west of Baghdad.
Jawad said the bodies might belong to men who had been missing since their convoy that was delivering supplies for the US military was ambushed near Khaldiya on Thursday.
Two of the bodies were identified as an Iraqi police officer and an interpreter.
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