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IRBIL, Jan 8 (KUNA) -- Two policemen, five gunmen and three civilians died
in violent incidents in northern Iraq on Friday, police said.
A police source told KUNA a booby-trapped car blew up in Ras Al-Jadeh
region west of Mosul killing two members of a police patrol.
In the south of Mosul, American troops traded gunfire with gunmen, the
police said, adding that five of the gunmen were killed in the firefight, and
that the Americans suffered no casualties.
In a tribal gunfight in Sinjar in the north of Mosul, three civilians were
killed and five others were wounded. (end)
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