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Day of carnage leaves 12 dead throughout Iraq

Posted by Mustafa Abbas on April 09, 2014 | Views: 727 | Ratings: 419

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Iraqi security and hospital officials say 12 civilians have been killed in separate car bomb attacks and shooting incidents across the country. On Tuesday, unidentified gunmen fatally shot six members of the same family inside their home on the outskirts of the northern city of Mosul, which is located 350 kilometers (220 miles) north of the capital Baghdad. Elsewhere, a policeman was killed when an explosives-laden car went off at a checkpoint in the town of Tuz Khurmatu, situated 175 kilometers (110 miles) north of Baghdad. Attacks were also carried out in the cities of Baiji and Tikrit, located 140 kilometers (86 miles) northwest of Baghdad, claiming five more lives. Meanwhile, security forces killed 25 al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants in an ambush southwest of Baghdad on Tuesday. Baghdad’s security spokesman Brigadier General Saad Maan said the terrorists were planning to attack an army base that they had attempted to hit last week.