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Senior army officer among 16 killed in Iraq
At least 16 people died in Iraq violence on Sunday, including a senior army officer gunned down in an ambush by insurgents.
At least 16 people died in Iraq violence on Sunday, including a senior army officer gunned down in an ambush by insurgents.
"A high-ranking officer and two companions were killed this morning by armed men north of Baghdad," said army captain Saad Amjad, without being able to provide further information about the identities of the victims.
The group of the Al-Qaeda front man in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, said in an Internet statement that it had killed Iraqi general Jadaan Malih in an attack north of Baghdad.
The statement, whose authenticity could not be verified, said Malih was commander of a military camp at Taji, north of Baghdad, and that two other people had been killed in the attack.
In the far northern city of Mosul, two civilians were killed and two wounded in an exchange of fire following a rocket attack on local government offices, medical and security sources said.
The bullet-riddled bodies of two Iraqi soldiers were found near Dhuluiya, 70 kilometres north of Baghdad, security sources said.
In the same region, two other Iraqi soldiers were killed and seven others wounded in a mortar attack on their camp. That attack was also claimed by Zarqawi's group in a pamphlet whose authenticity was impossible to verify.
Four Iraqis were killed close to Baiji, 200 kilometres north of Baghdad, when they tried to overtake a joint US-Iraqi convoy, police said, adding that it was unclear which force had opened fire.
