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 home made bomb that was planted inside a traffic police kiosk in Mayseloon Square, east Baghdad, detonated Thursday morning, injuring one traffic policeman.
An armed man held up a currency exchange business in New Baghdad, east Baghdad, killed three people and injured another eight, and got away.
Armed men stormed the house of a policeman in Wahda neighbourhood, Abu Ghraib district, west Baghdad, late Wednesday, killing the policeman, his wife and a guest who was staying over.
Armed men in a speeding car shot and killed a traffic policeman near Qahtan Square, Yarmouk neighbourhood, west Baghdad, at 10.30 p.m. Wednesday.
A magnetic bomb that was stuck to a civilian car detonated near Yarmouk traffic police station, west Baghdad, at around 11 p.m. Wednesday, without casualties.
Nineveh
Two cars carrying armed men attacked and attempted to take-over an Iraqi army checkpoint in Tel Abta, west Mosul, Thursday, but failed; one armed man was killed, the rest got away on foot, leaving behind their burned cars.
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