Violence Across Iraq Leaves 28 Dead

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Source: Agence France-Presse

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Last Update: Sunday, June 10, 2007. 6:14am (AEST)
Violence across Iraq leaves 28 dead

An Iraqi army officer says a suicide bomber slammed an explosives-laden truck into an Iraqi army base overnight, killing 12 soldiers and wounding 30 while violence in other parts of Iraq took the day's death toll to at least 28.

Lieutenant Mohammed Fatlawi says the army base is near the town of Iskandiriyah, 60 kilometres south-west of Baghdad in the insurgent-plagued triangle of death region.

Police also found the bodies of 27 people, 24 in Baghdad and three south of the northern oil hub of Kirkuk.

The US military says mortars rained down on Camp Bucca, a US-run prison near the southern Iraqi city of Basra, killing six inmates and wounding 50 more.

In Baghdad, security and medical officials say five were killed and 12 more wounded when a roadside bomb struck a passing minibus in the eastern Al-Baladiyat neighbourhood.

In another incident, a car bomb detonated next to a police patrol, killing a policemen and a bystander and wounding 12 others in Baghdad's north-east Shiite neighbourhood of Al-Shaab.

Another policeman was killed in a separate clash with armed men in the same neighbourhood.

In Kut, south of Baghdad, clashes broke out between US-Iraqi forces and militants from the Mahdi Army militia loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

Police captain Ali Hussein said two people were killed and five wounded, but did not clarify whether the dead were civilians, militants or members of the security forces.

The military also carried out a series of raids in which six militants were killed.

In a raid south-east of Fallujah, the former rebel city in the western province of Anbar, US troops targeted a weapons distributor for the Al Qaeda in Iraq network.

A military statement says US troops approached the area, where five men reached for weapons.

The statement says the coalition forces responded by engaging the armed men, including the suspected distributor, and killing them.

An Iraqi boy was wounded in the gunfight.

The military also announced the death of one more militant in a similar raid in Baghdad.

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