American troops killed eight suspected insurgents Sunday during a raid north
of Baghdad, the US military said. Elsewhere in Iraq, at least five roadside
bombs killed three people and wounded several others.
US
troops secure the site of a bomb blast near a Shiite shrine Saturday April
8, 2006 in Musayyib about 60 kilometers (40 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq.
In a new attack on Shiite Muslims, a car bomb exploded Saturday near a
Shiite shrine in Musayyib, killing at least four pilgrims and wounding 15
others. [AP Photo] |
Clashes erupted
when troops surrounded a suspected safehouse and nearby tent on the northern
outskirts of Baghdad. Five suspected insurgents inside the tent were killed. As
firing on the troops continued, they called in for air support, and three
assailants were killed in the ensuing air strike, a military statement said.
After the fighting, the American forces discovered bombs and weapons inside
the house, and detained two suspects. A woman founded wounded inside the house
when the troops entered was evacuated to a hospital and listed in stable
condition, the statement said.
A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed a passer-by in
Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles south of Baghdad, police said. Another civilian was
killed and two wounded when another roadside bomb targeting a police patrol
exploded at Maysaloun Square in eastern Baghdad.
Roadside bombings in several Baghdad neighborhoods killed a policeman and
wounded several others, police said. One of the attacks targeted police near a
Sunni mosque in the western neighborhood of Ghazaliyah, wounding at least three
people, police said. Another targeted a convoy of American military police, but
the U.S. military said there were no casualties.
Police discovered a body, shot in the head, in the Dora district of southern
Baghdad.
In Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, a man allegedly making a bomb was
killed when it accidentally exploded inside a house, police said. Police
arrested six suspected insurgents in the house after hearing the explosion,
police Maj. Karim al-Tamimi said