BAGHDAD, 10 June 2008 — At least eight people were killed and 17 injured, including four women from the same family, in attacks yesterday in Baghdad and the restive Diyala province, where another mass grave was uncovered, security and medical officials said.
A car bomb, targeting an Iraqi police checkpoint near a shopping center in Baghdad’s Karada district, killed five people, including one policeman, and injured 10, police sources told Deutsche Presse— Agentur.
Baghdad has seen a wave of attacks using car bombs in the past two days after a relative period of calm that has seen a decrease in violence in recent months.
In the restive Diyala province in central Iraq, two attacks left one person dead and seven people injured, the Voices of Iraq news agency cited a police source as saying.
Mortar shells fell on a residential building in the village of Sanija near Baquba, 57 kilometers northeast of Baghdad. One man was killed and three people from the same family were injured, according to the source.
In the second attack, a bomb went off near a farmland in the village of Muradiyah near Baquba, injuring four women from the same family. In two separate incidents in the province, gunmen shot dead a woman and a man, security officials said.
Also in Diyala, a hotbed of Sunni insurgency, a mass grave containing 25 decomposed bodies was uncovered by Iraqi troops and members of a tribal police force, medical officials told Deutsche Presse-Agentur.
The discovery was made during search operations in the Qatun area, west of Baquba.
The US military said it also detained 13 suspects and destroyed a “foreign terrorist hideout” in two days of operations targeting Al-Qaeda in Iraq across the country.
