Attackers Kill 4 Iraqi Police Officers (in Peaceful Kirkuk)

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050319/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Attackers gunned down a police officer heading to work Saturday in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, then bombed a funeral procession carrying his corpse, killing three other policemen and injuring two, officials said.

The attacks came on the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion on March 19, 2003 and are typical of the violence that has become commonplace in Iraq (news - web sites).


The attackers sprayed automatic-weapon fire from a vehicle, killing the policeman as he made his way to the station house early Saturday, police Capt. Ahmed Shinrani said. Hours later, a roadside bomb hit mourners and security forces transporting the corpse for burial.

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The Kirkuk attacks came as unidentified assailants in Baghdad killed police Commissioner Ahmed Ali Kadim as he traveled to his office in the Doura neighborhood of the capital, said Falah Al-Mohammadawi, an investigator in the precinct.

[Igel]

1. Another funeral bombing!!! n/t