IRAQ: INSURGENTS KILL 12 IRAQI WORKERSIraq
, Wednesday 27 July 2005 (CNN)- A group of about ten armed men opened fire on two minibuses which were bringing Iraqi workers to their homes on Tuesday,
killing at least twelve and wounding 22 others.
As reported by CNN, the event took place in the sorroundings of
Abu Ghraib (west of Baghdad). The workers were leaving an iron factory, and there were several other buses doing the same service that day, but the targeted ones were heading toward the two main Shiite neighbourhoods nearby:
Sadr City and
Shula.
"We were on the bus going home. Two cars with about 10 insurgents opened fire on us. We don't know why. We are just workers," said a victim from the hospital, Adil Zamal, who also added,
"We fell to the floor.
They just kept shooting and shooting until they ran out of ammunition."
Meanwhile, according to al-Jazeera,
four US soldiers died when their vehicle unfortunately ran over a roadside bomb on Sunday night, a report from the US military said on Tuesday. The troops were part of Task Force Baghdad and were assigned to the 48th Infantry Brigade.
An internet statement from the
al-Quaeda group in Iraq has issued the death sentence for the two Algerinian envoys kidnapped a week ago in Baghdad. Even if the statement was not immediately authenticated, Algeria has already withdrawn its diplomats.
Five Iraqi police officers were killed in clashes. Two of them near Baghdad by a mortar round, the other three in the surroundings of Hilla by a rocket.
An aide of
Muqtada al-Sadr, famous Shia cleric, was shot dead while stepping out of his car in the north of the capital, and a paramedic and a women were killed by "indirect fire" during clashes in Mosul. Three Ministry of Health workers were shot dead also in Baghdad.
It is interesting to note how a study by the U.S. State and Defense Departments found out that
criminals and rebel fighters were successful in infiltrating fake agents in the Iraqi police due to the lack of control by the US troops.
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