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21-01-05, 15:58
Six including 5 Iraqi soldiers die in Samarra attack
Pakistan Times Monitoring Report
SAMARRA (Iraq): Five Iraqi soldiers and a civilian were killed Thursday in a string of attacks north of Baghdad, while the capital itself remained calm, police said.
Four soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb attack in the city of Samarra.
“The attack targeted a military convoy in central Samarra. Four soldiers were killed and four wounded,” a lieutenant colonel, Mahmud Mohammed, told AFP.
Two soldiers were killed Wednesday in similar circumstances near Samarra, police said.
Militants carry out daily attacks in and around Samarra, a conservative Sunni Muslim, despite a huge US-led offensive in October aimed at crushing the rebellion.
An Iraqi soldier was killed and another wounded Thursday in a mortar attack on a military position in Siniya, west of the troubled city of Baiji, said Captain Ali Yusef.
And a civilian was killed and three others were wounded, including a four-year-old girl, when Iraqi soldiers mistakenly opened fire on them near Tikrit, police said.
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http://www.pakistantimes.net/2005/01/21/top4.htm
Pakistan Times Monitoring Report
SAMARRA (Iraq): Five Iraqi soldiers and a civilian were killed Thursday in a string of attacks north of Baghdad, while the capital itself remained calm, police said.
Four soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb attack in the city of Samarra.
“The attack targeted a military convoy in central Samarra. Four soldiers were killed and four wounded,” a lieutenant colonel, Mahmud Mohammed, told AFP.
Two soldiers were killed Wednesday in similar circumstances near Samarra, police said.
Militants carry out daily attacks in and around Samarra, a conservative Sunni Muslim, despite a huge US-led offensive in October aimed at crushing the rebellion.
An Iraqi soldier was killed and another wounded Thursday in a mortar attack on a military position in Siniya, west of the troubled city of Baiji, said Captain Ali Yusef.
And a civilian was killed and three others were wounded, including a four-year-old girl, when Iraqi soldiers mistakenly opened fire on them near Tikrit, police said.
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http://www.pakistantimes.net/2005/01/21/top4.htm