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 exploded in Amil neighbourhood, southwest Baghdad at 8 a.m. Wednesday, injuring one policeman and one civilian.
Armed men in a speeding car, carrying pistols fitted with silencers opened fire upon a police checkpoint in Dora, south Baghdad at 8.30 a.m. Wednesday, killing two policemen and injuring one.
A magnetic bomb was stuck to the car of Tha'ir al Zubaidi, senior media officer at the Parliament. It detonated just as he got out of his car in Mansour, west Baghdad. He got away without any injuries.
Nineveh
A magnetic bomb that was stuck to the private car of a policeman detonated while he was driving in Mishraq neighbourhood, east Mosul, Wednesday, killing the policeman and injuring a civilian n the street.
Basra
A police patrol found the body of Sabri Abu Adnan, Head of the Local Council of Khaleej neighbourhood. He was kidnapped, Sunday, as he was getting into his car in front of his house.
Anbar
Armed men attacked a police officer in a medical compound in the city of Heet, 180 km to the west of Fallujah (240 km to the west of Baghdad) at 5.30 p.m. Wednesday. He was with his wife and two male relatives. The officer and the two men with him were killed and the wife was severely injured. Before the police officer died he shot and wounded one of the attackers, who was taken to the hospital with with the wounded wife. Inside the hospital the gunman detonated an explosive belt that he was wearing and severely injured two policemen and two civilians.
Kirkuk
A roadside bomb targeted a U.S. military convoy in Nasr village, to the south of the city of Kirkuk, Monday, June 28. The area was instantly cordoned off, and the Iraqi side has no information regarding American casualties and no casualties were reported by the U.S. military.
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