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BAGHDAD, March 28 (KUNA) -- Seven US soldiers were injured in two separate
attacks by al-Mahdi Army militia men in the capital, Baghdad, on Thursday, the
US Army said in statement on Friday.
The militia mounted 11 mortar shell attacks yesterday, the statement noted.
Three attacks had targeted two US Army headquarters and a joint security
center in the eastern part of the Tigris River, which resulted in injuring
four soldiers, the statement said.
A US Army patrol was also targeted with an improvised explosive devise in
the New Baghdad area, in which three more soldiers were injured, it added.
The rest of the attacks took place outside the Green Zone area, resulting
in the killing of an Iraqi civilian and injuring 14 more. Another attack
targeted two joint security centers and a checkpoint run by al-Sahwa group in
western al-Rashid area, resulting in the injury of three al-Sahwa elements,
the statement concluded.
To that, a security source told KUNA today that unknown gunmen assassinated
the Administrative Manager of Naheyat Ghmas southern Iraq, Saad Al-Shibli.
Furthermore, and according to eyewitnesses, US war planes had raided groups
of armed men in al-Kadhimia neighborhood today and yesterday, killing 13 of
them, a statement that the US forces had acknowledged.
According to an Iraqi medical source, the toll of casualties of the clashes
that have been going at al-Sadr City since last Tuesday reached 39 killed and
389 injured, including women and children.
The Iraqi capital is under curfew since yesterday, and will last until
tomorrow morning. (end)
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