Baghdad - Five Iraqis were killed and 12 injured when two
bombs exploded near an electric power station in Baghdad on
Wednesday, eyewitnesses said.
The blasts targeted the power station near several primary
schools, including one that serves both Christian and Muslim
students, witnesses told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.
During the past few weeks, several Christians have been murdered
in the northern city of Mosul and thousands have fled the city after
recent threats that forced them to leave their homes and jobs.
The attacks coincided with major demonstrations by Christian
groups protesting the removal of Article 50 from the provincial
elections law, which was approved by the Presidential Council last
week. The article had guaranteed Christians certain rights of
representation in local assemblies.
Another civilian was killed and a woman injured in two random
shootings by Iraqi police personnel in Mosul city, capital of the
northern Nineveh province.
A source told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency that the woman
was inside her house when fragments of shattered glass hit her.
Also in Mosul, two young boys were injured by a roadside bomb in
Nineveh province on Wednesday, a police source said.
The bomb was hidden in a cartoon box and went off against the six-
year-old boys who were playing in al-Tahrir district, east Mosul, VOI
reported.
Mosul, 400 kilometres north of Baghdad, is home to a Sunni
majority as well as Christian, Shiite and Kurdish populations. It is
viewed by US and Iraqi authorities as one of the last remaining al-
Qaida strongholds in Iraq.
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