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Two killed in booby-trapped explosion, local official assassinated

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) mhg.gta KUNA 230037 Apr 08NNNN