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 9 a.m. an adhesive bomb detonated in Abbas Ibn Firnas square near Baghdad International Airport in west Baghdad. The bomb was stuck to a fuel truck. Five civilians were injured by the explosions, three truck and other civilians vehicles were burnt.
Gunmen assassinated a policeman in Al-Ameen AlThanya area in east Baghdad around 12 p.m.
One policeman was killed and four others were injured by a roadside bomb which targeted their patrol in Mashtal neighborhood in east Baghdad around 2 p.m.
Kirkuk
Gunmen kidnapped a Christian employee near his house in Ghernata area in downtown Kirkuk city on Saturday evening.
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