Baghdad - US helicopters shelled a residential building in
Baghdad's southern Doura neighbourhood, killing 13, including two
women and four children, while four people were shot dead in Diyala
province, media reports said Friday.
At least 11 other Iraqis were wounded in the US raid, Iraqi
private al-Sharkiya TV reported, citing Iraqi police and medical
sources.
The US military did not comment on the incident.
Meanwhile, four civilians were killed and nine others wounded when
gunmen in Iraqi army uniforms opened fire on a cafe in the central
Saadiya region of Diyala province, an official security source told
independent Voices of Iraq (VOI)news agency.
The gunmen managed to escape, the source added.
Saadiya is an ethnically-mixed region of Arabs, Kurds and
Turkomans.
Diyala province, 60 kilometres north of Baghdad, has been the
target of recurrent attacks, especially by al-Qaeda terrorist network
militants.
Joint Iraqi-US forces had launched the security operation named
Operation Arrowhead Ripper in Diyala province on June 19 in a bid to
rid Baquba and other cities from al-Qaeda militants.
In west Diwaniyah, 200 kilometres south of Baghdad, the dead body
of a policeman was found almost 30 minutes after he had been abducted
by unidentified gunmen Friday in al-Askari neighbourhood, VOI
reported.
According to a police source, the body bore signs of gunshot
wounds.
In other news, US coalition forces captured a wanted suspected
terrorist and detained six other suspects in operations Friday to
disrupt al-Qaeda in Iraq operations in the Tigris River Valley, the
US military in Iraq reported.
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