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
A roadside bomb targeted a civilian car in Palestine Street, northeastern Baghdad, Wednesday, injuring the two civilians inside the car.
Anbar
A booby trapped tanker truck driven by a suicide bomber targeted the police station in the town of Saqlawiyah, north of Fallujah, where workers were on the site doing restoration work. The explosion killed five civilians and two policemen and injured four policemen and one woman and one little girl. The explosion also caused extensive material damages to the police station and to the local council building and the medical centre which are adjacent to it.
Kirkuk
Armed men opened fire upon a Sahwa checkpoint in Rashad district, in west Kirkuk, injuring one Sahwa member.
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