Security Incidents for 04/01/07

PHOTO: Iraqi municipality workers load bodies of victims into the back of a truck as they take them out of a hospital's morgue in Kirkuk. The monthly death toll in Iraq rose 15 percent in March, government figures revealed Sunday, as insurgents and sectarian militias continue to defy a military crackdown in Baghdad.(AFP/Marwan Ibrahim)

Baghdad - A roadside bomb exploded targeting a convoy of two officials from the Iraqi Islamic Party near the parties headquarters in Yarmouk neighborhood wounded two security guards.

Baghdad - Four mortar shells hit the Dora neighborhgood. 4 civilians were injured.

Baghdad - A mortar shell hit the Yarmouk neighborhood. 3 civilians were injured.

Baghdad - One IED exploded in Salekh. No casualties were reported.

Baghdad - 16 unidentified bodies were found in Baghdad today: five in Amil district, three in Dora, two in Yarmouk, 2 in Mansour, 2 in Iskan, 1 in Huraih and 1 in Bab al-Muadam.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi forces with U.S. advisers detained two suspected insurgents on Saturday evening during a raid in the Mehdi army militia stronghold of Sadr City in northeast Baghdad. An air strike was called in when the forces came under fire, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded two people in eastern Baghdad on Saturday, police said.

BAGHDAD - Six U.S. soldiers killed in two roadside bombings southwest of Baghdad. Two soldiers were killed by an explosion during a patrol on Saturday and four more were killed when another improvised explosive device detonated on Sunday near a unit responding to the earlier attack.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen wounded two children when they threw a hand grenade at a playing field in the southern Zaafaraniya district of Baghdad on Saturday, police said.

Baghdad- Several civilians were arrested in a raid conducted by a joint Iraqi-U.S. force backed by helicopters in neighborhoods surrounding Sadr City, eastern Baghdad, eyewitnesses said.

Baqouba - Saturday night a joint U.S.-Iraqi force raided cells of the Islamic State of Iraq in Kinaan, khashaf, and Al-Zaidiya towns and arrested more than 100 suspected insurgents and recovered a large quantity of weapons and ammunition. Another 40 suspects were seized in a similar operation in Nahr Diyala, where weapons and ammunition also were recovered.

Balad – Gunmen killed 6 Iraqi soldiers on the road between Balad and Dhilwiya.

Samarra – US and Iraqi forces killed three gunmen and arrested three others south of Samarra.

Tikrit – 14 suspected insurgents were arrested after a joint US – Iraqi raid south of Tikrit.

Tuz – One person was killed and three injured when a bomb exploded in Tuz.

BAQUBA - Gunmen kidnapped 19 civilians after stopping cars at a fake checkpoint near the city of Baquba, Iraqi police said. Police said those kidnapped, all men, were from a Shi'ite village near Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad.

MOSUL - Two suicide truck bombs killed two people and wounded 17 when they exploded at an Iraqi army base east of the northern city of Mosul, 390 km north of Baghdad, police said. The two dead were civilians while most of the wounded were soldiers.

TIKRIT - Gunmen killed an Iraqi police lieutenant-colonel and wounded his driver in the city of Tikrit, 175 km north of Baghdad, police said. Police also found two bodies in the city's east.

DIWANIYA - Gunmen killed an Iraqi contractor and his son when they stormed his office in the city of Diwaniya, 180 km south of Baghdad on Saturday, police said.

JIBLA - Gunmen killed an official in the office of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in the town of Jibla near the southern city of Hilla, on Saturday, police said. Gunmen also killed the guard of a Sunni mosque and set the mosque on fire in Jibla, police said.

Kut- Two unidentified bodies, one headless and another whose lower limbs were cut, were found by local police north of the city of al-Souira, a source in Wassit province said.

Kut- An explosive charge on Sunday afternoon went off near a U.S. vehicle convoy on the main road linking Baghdad to the southern Iraqi city of Kut, damaging a vehicle, an eyewitness said.

Qaim- Five people were killed and another one was wounded on Sunday when unknown gunmen waged an attack against al-Jabab village at al-Qaim town near the Iraqi borders with Syria, local residents said.

Diala- Unknown gunmen on Sunday positioned a fake checkpoint in central Iraq and forced 19 civilians at gunpoint to unknown destination, a police source said.

Touz Khormato- Two people were killed and four others wounded in an explosive device blast that ripped through a market in Touz Khormato district, northeast of Baghdad, Iraqi police said.

Najaf- Explosives and ordnance were found by the bomb squad in Najaf, which also defused two explosive charges planted south of the city.

Mosul- A policeman and a civilian were killed by unidentified gunmen in eastern Mosul, the Ninawa police operations room director said.

Mosul- A group of gunmen managed to control the Abi Tammam telephone exchange in southwest Mosul, an official security source said on Sunday.

Kirkuk- A policeman and a civilian were wounded when an explosive device went off near an Iraqi police patrol in southern Kirkuk, a security source said.

Kirkuk -- Around 6.30 pm Saturday, nine workers were killed and one injured when gunmen fired towards them as they were driving to work rebuilding the Iraqi army headquarters in the area. The incident took place at junction between Kirkuk and Biji. -- Around 3:30 pm a roadside bomb hit a police patrol car in the downtown of Kirkuk. No casualties were reported.

Hilla- Nine gunmen proved to have belonged to the so-called al-Tawhid Wa al-Jihad Organization were arrested by Iraqi Scorpion Brigade soldiers backed by Multi-National Force north of Hilla, a source in the Babel police said.

Karbala- Four unidentified bodies were salvaged by the civil defense center's rescue team at a house west of Karbala province, an official source said.

Falluja- The body of a former Iraqi army officer was found in Falluja, a city in the predominantly Sunni province of al-Anbar, a security source said.

Falluja- An unidentified number of Iraqi soldiers were wounded and a Humvee vehicle was destroyed in an ambush by unidentified gunmen south of Falluja targeting an Iraqi army patrol, eyewitnesses said.

Basra- Nine suspected gunmen were arrested in two separate incidents north of Basra, the British forces in Iraq said.

Basra- Two British soldiers were wounded in two separate attacks on British patrols north of Basra, the spokesman for the Multi-National Force in southern Iraq, Capt. Katie Brown, said.

Basra - According to the spokesman for the Multinational Froces, two British bases, one at the Basra airport, the other in a former presidential palace, had been targeted by indirect fire without damage.