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| March, 15 2005 | Tuesday | 4 Safar 1426 |
Eight killed in Iraq attacks
BAGHDAD: Attacks in Iraq killed at least eight people as anti-US guerillas carried out a fresh wave of attacks on Sunday and Monday.
An Iraqi cameraman, Husam Hilal Sarsam, working for a Kurdish-language television station, was gunned down in the northern city of Mosul.
A pair of Iraqi farmers were killed and two others wounded when a car bomb targeting a US military convoy exploded in Rashid, 25 kilometres south of Baghdad.
In the north, a truck driver in a Turkish convoy escorted by US troops was killed when his vehicle hit a roadside bomb near the village of Al Hajaj, around the refinery town of Baiji, 220 kilometres from Baghdad.
And in Baghdad, a bomb attack on the car of the director general of the health ministry, wounded four of his bodyguards on Monday morning in eastern Baghdad.
In Mahmudiyah, to the south, a local hospital received three bodies and a wounded man who later died. The men were attacked while travelling on a road near Mahmudiyah.
—AFP