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Iraq violence claims 34 lives
Two British, two U.S. troops among dead
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A spate of weekend violence, concentrated near
the Iraqi capital, has claimed 34 lives -- most of them civilians --
and leveled six Shiite shrines, evidence that sectarian tensions are
still strong.
In the deadliest attack, 14 Iraqi civilians were killed and six
others were wounded in a suicide car bombing near the main checkpoint
on the road that leads to Baghdad International Airport, according to
an Iraqi security source and the U.S. military.
The attackers detonated the explosives in a parking lot adjacent to
Victory Base Complex in western Baghdad, a statement from the Multi-
National Division said. The terrorists were targeting Iraqis who had
congregated in the parking lot, the military said.
Two British soldiers were among those killed this weekend in a
roadside bomb attack just north of the southern city of Basra, a
British military source said, adding that a British soldier was
wounded.
Also Sunday, two U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in east
Baghdad, according to a U.S. military news release.
Since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003, 2,439 U.S. troops and
military civilians have died in the Iraq war.
A total of 106 British troops have been killed.
The latest attacks came as Iraq's new parliament met Sunday. Prime
Minister-designate Nuri al-Maliki has eight days left to submit his
list of Cabinet nominees.
In other violence in Baghdad on Sunday:
Five civilians were killed and eight people were wounded, including
one policeman, when a roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol
exploded at 9:45 a.m. local time on Palestine Street, according to a
police official.
Seven civilians were wounded when a roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi
police commando patrol exploded around 9:55 a.m. in Tayaran Square in
central Baghdad, a police official said.
An Iraqi policeman was killed and five civilians were wounded when a
roadside bomb hit an Iraqi police patrol in northern Baghdad's al-
Mughrab street around 10 a.m., according to an official with Iraq's
Interior Ministry.
Two bakers were killed and two others were wounded when gunmen opened
fire on a bakery around 10:40 a.m. in the northwestern neighborhood
of Saydiya, the official said.
Three people were killed and 15 others wounded when a roadside bomb
detonated in a crowded marketplace at 11:15 a.m. in the southeast
district of Jisr Diyala, an official with Zafaraniya police station
told CNN.
Two foreign ministry guards were killed in a roadside bomb explosion
about 50 miles north of Baghdad, as they were returning to the
capital, a foreign ministry source said. The guards were traveling
alone and the foreign minister was not with them, the source said.
In violence outside Baghdad on Sunday:
Five Iraqi police were wounded when a roadside bomb struck their
patrol in southern Kirkuk around 1 a.m., the city's police chief
said. Kirkuk is about 150 miles north of Baghdad.
One Iraqi police officer was killed and four others wounded -- three
police, one insurgent -- in a 20-minute gun battle in Mosul around
12:00 p.m., according to Col. Abdul Karim Khalaf. Mosul is about 250
miles north of Baghdad.
Two civilians were killed and nine other civilians were wounded when
a car bomb detonated near a U.S. military convoy in Mosul around 1:30
p.m., Khalaf said.
Shrines destroyed
An official with the Diyala Joint Coordination Center told CNN that
gunmen planted bombs around four Shiite shrines in Wajihiya, about 8
miles southeast of Baquba, around 10 p.m. Saturday night.
The shrines destroyed were the Imam Jaber Bin Ali al-Hadi Shiite
shrine, the Imam Abdullah Bin Ali al-Hadi shrine, the Shimiyar shrine
and Imam Abu Habib shrine.
In Balad Ruz, east of Baquba, a Shiite shrine called the Fityan
shrine was blown up late Saturday when bombs planted by gunmen
exploded, the official said.
In Kanan, about 6 miles east of Baquba, the Tamim Shiite shrine was
destroyed by bombs planted by gunmen on Saturday morning around 8
a.m., the official said.
No one was hurt in the shrine explosions, the official said.
A February 22 attack on the Al-Askariya Mosque in Samarra, the third
holiest Shiite Islam shrine in Iraq, sparked sectarian violence in
Iraq that claimed more than 1,000 lives in Baghdad in April alone.
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