Violence Flares Across Iraq
BAGHDAD (UPI) -- Insurgent militants killed at least 10 people and wounded at least 29 others in four attacks across Iraq Friday, police said.
Sources told the Chinese news agency Xinhua three people died and 28 others, including eight police officers, were wounded when three roadside bombs targeting a police patrol detonated in the Zaafaraniya area.
In a second incident, gunmen raided a house in the Buhriz area, killing three brothers living there and wounding a fourth. A police source told Xinhua the brothers worked in the security forces.
In a third attack, gunmen hit the house of Sheik Bashir Mutlaq Salah in a village north of Baquba, killing the imam, his wife and 8-year-old daughter, the source told Xinhua.
A fourth attack resulted in the assassination of an Iraqi army lieutenant colonel near his home in the Ghazaliya area in west Baghdad.
The attacks came the day after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a Shiite mosque in Diyala province, killing at least a dozen people and wounding dozens more, The New York Times reported.
An Iraqi security official told the U.S. newspaper Sunni and Shiite clerics were meeting in the mosque to convey that tensions between the religious groups had eased.