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Posted on Thu, Oct. 29, 2009

round-up of daily Violence in Iraq - Thursday 29 October 2009

Laith Hammoudi | McClatchy Newspapers

last updated: October 29, 2009 02:01:19 PM

The daily Iraqi violence report is compiled by McClatchy Newspapers Special Correspondents in Baghdad from police, military and medical reports. This is not a comprehensive list of all violence in Iraq, much of which goes unreported. It’s posted without editing as transmitted to McClatchy’s Washington Bureau.

Baghdad

Five civilians were wounded when a roadside bomb detonated targeting civilians in Palestine Street in east Baghdad around 6 p.m.

Nineveh

Three policemen were killed when gunmen attacked a police checkpoint in Amil neighborhood in west Mosul on Thursday evening.

A suicide bomber blew himself up after Iraqi soldiers surrounded him in Talafar town west of Mosul on Thursday afternoon.

On Thursday afternoon, two gunmen opened fire upon a policeman in Al-Karama neighborhood in east Mosul. The policeman fired back the gunmen wounding one of them while the other one run.

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