Four Iraqi soldiers were killed and 22 people were wounded in bomb attacks in northern and central Iraq on Thursday, security officials said.
In the deadliest attack, three soldiers were killed and 12 wounded when an insurgent detonated a car bomb near an army base in Al-Sharqat, 300 kilometres (190 miles) north of Baghdad in Salaheddin province, a police officer said on condition of anonymity.
In the former rebel bastion of Fallujah just west of the capital one soldier was killed and five people including three soldiers were wounded by a bomb on a parked motorcycle near an army checkpoint north of the city, an army officer said.
He said that in a separate attack in eastern Fallujah, five people were wounded, including three policemen, by a roadside bomb targeting another checkpoint.
US and Iraqi officials have warned of the dangers of an upsurge in violence as negotiations on forming a new governing coalition have dragged on, more than four months after parliamentary elections. |
