(9) Iraqi soldiers killed in bomb attacks

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Nine Iraqi soldiers have been killed in three separate bomb attacks in Iraq.


Three Iraqi soldiers were killed and one was wounded in an attack on a checkpoint in Balad, north of Baghdad, on Saturday.

In Tikrit, also north of Baghdad, five Iraqi soldiers were killed and seven were wounded when a bomber blew his car up at the entrance of a military base.

And in Falluja, west of Baghdad, an Iraqi soldier was killed and two were wounded in another attack.

In another development on Saturday, US-led and Iraqi forces arrested one of the leaders of the Kurdish group Jaish Ansar al-Sunna, in the northern city of Mosul.