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
- Four civilians were killed and 10 others were injured by a parked car bomb that targeted a convoy of Zeyad al Ani, the President of the Islamic University in Adhemiyah neighborhood in northern Baghdad around 12 p.m. Two of al Ani's guards were among the injured.
Nineveh
- Gunmen killed a broker when they attacked him inside his office in downtown Mosul. Also a civilian was injured in the incident.
Kirkuk
- A roadside bomb detonated near Al-Noor mosque in eastern Kirkuk city in the morning. One person was killed and another was wounded.
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