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BAGHDAD, April 22 (KUNA) -- A booby-trapped car explosion killed two people
and injured 10 others in Mansour area, and an assassination of a local
official in Harithiya suburb summed up violence which Baghdad witnessed on
Tuesday.
Major-General Qassem Attah, spokesman for the law enforcement operation,
told KUNA that the booby-trapped car explosion also caused damage to nearby
private properties, adding that it occurred at an army check point in Masnour
area.
Meanwhile, a security source said, Harth Hassan Kazami, an official in
Harithiya area, west of Baghdad, was assassinated by masked gunmen.
Also another group of masked gunmen attacked several security targets in
Baghdad, but Sahwa (Awakening) council members and Iraqi soldiers engaged with
the gunmen, arresting four and handed them to a US patrol near the place of
the incident. (end)
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