Eight killed in Iraq violence

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Source: AFP

BAQUBA, Iraq (AFP) - Insurgents killed eight people in Iraq on Tuesday, including six in a series of shootings in the restive province of Diyala, security officials said.

Police Colonel Essam Abdullah, head of Al-Abbara police station near Baquba, the capital of Diyala, was kidnapped after gunmen ambushed his convoy, Captain Ibrahim al-Salehi of Baquba said.

He said the gunmen killed two of Abdullah's bodyguards before seizing him.

Two people, including a schoolchild, were killed when gunmen sprayed their minibus with bullets in Al-Aswad near the town of Khalis, police Lieutenant Ahmed Ali from Baquba said.

In a similar incident, gunmen shot dead two more people in the village of Albu Aziz, east of Baquba, he added.

Three members of a single family, including a small girl, were wounded when their car was hit by a roadside bomb in the centre of Baquba, Doctor Ahmed Alwan of the local hospital said.



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