Round-up of Daily Violence - Saturday 19 July 2008
By Hussein Kadhim | McClatchy Newspapers
The daily Iraq 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
- Around 7 am a roadside bomb targeted an American patrol near Ghadeer bridge in Zayuna neighborhood. One Humvee was damaged with no casualties reported.
Around 3 pm a roadside bomb targeted an American patrol in Karrada neighborhood. 4 Iraqi people were injured.
- Police found 1 dead body in the Muskar Al-Rashid neighborhood (east Baghdad).
Diyala
- Iraqi army found two heads for two shepherds who were kidnapped last Wednesday in Karabla village(31 miles north Baquba).
Mosul
- Gunmen killed a policeman in downtown Mosul city today.
Sulaimaniyah
- Police found two dead bodies for a woman a her daughter in Sulaimaniyah city today.
Salahuddin
- A roadside bomb targeted a patrol for the south oil company guards in Sulaiman Beck in Tuz Khurmatu ( south of Kirkuk and northeast of Tikrit) Friday night. 4 guards were injured.
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