Security Incidents for Thursday, May 24, 2007
Bulldozers work as smoke billows into the sky during a fire in the Hanjirah area, about 25 km (12.43 miles) northwest of Kirkuk city, Iraq,Thursday, May 24, 2007. Suspected saboteurs targeted a deserted oil well in Hanjirah area, causing a huge fire. (AP Photo/Yahya Ahmed)
Baghdad:
#1: Three Fiji nationals working for a security company in Iraq have been injured in a road side bomb blast. The Fiji Live website reports the men were injured in an incident in Baghdad on Monday. They are now in a hospital in Germany. The men are employed by Armour Group, which has an office in Fiji.
#2: In Baghdad, a bomb went off in the eastern suburb of Sadr City in a square where construction workers looking for employment assemble in the mornings. Witness accounts said the bomb had claimed many lives, but no further information on the death toll was as yet available. Since the square has been the scene of five such attacks since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the police had cordoned off the area.
At least two people were killed and 15 wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a group of day labourers in Baghdad's Shi'ite Sadr city district, police said.
#3: Unidentified gunmen killed a senior official at Labor and Social Affairs Ministry while leaving his office in the Palestine street in eastern Baghdad, a police source said on Thursday. "Unknown armed men opened fire on Wednesday evening against Ali Salem Hassan Abbas, a general director in the Labor and Social Affairs Ministry, while leaving his office, killing him on the spot," the source, who asked not to be named, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq
#4: Thirteen people were killed and four others wounded when gunmen ambushed a minibus on a highway in northern Baghdad on Thursday, an Interior Ministry source said. "Gunmen opened fire on a KIA minibus on the highway that pass through the Hussieniyah neighborhood, killing 11 passengers," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. Afterwards, the attackers planted the minibus with a bomb before they fled the scene, which exploded later when the Iraqi police and civilians approached to the attacked minibus, killing two civilians and wounding four, including two policemen, the source said.
#5: A suicide car bomber killed one soldier and wounded two others at an Iraqi army checkpoint in the Iskan district of western Baghdad, police said.
#6: A suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest blew up himself inside a minibus, killing one passenger and wounding five in the Shaab district of northern Baghdad, police said.
Diyala Prv:
Nahr al-Bustan:
#1: At least six people were killed when gunmen opened fire on local residents at Nahr al-Bustan, a village near Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
Baquba:
#1: Police said they had found the bodies of three people who had been shot in Baquba.
Musiyyab:
#1: A body recovered by Iraqi police from the Euphrates River south of Baghdad was identified as one of three American soldiers abducted in an ambush claimed by al-Qaida, the military said Thursday. Military officials told the family of Pfc. Joseph Anzack Jr. that a commanding officer identified the remains recovered from the river, but that DNA tests were still pending.
Basra:
#1: A total of 133 persons were poisoned in the city of Basra from the high amount of chlorine in the drinking water, director of al-Madina hospital said on Thursday. "The hospital in northern Basra received 133 persons poisoned by chlorine and the critical cases were sent to the city's main hospitals for treatment," Dr Majed Mohammad Taqi told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq. "The incident occurred when a chlorine tube was thrown into the river and that led to a high rate of chlorine in the drinking water," he added, noting that all poison cases were treated.
Samarra:
#1: Five policemen were killed when an explosive charge went off near their vehicle patrol in the city of Samarra, a police source said on Thursday. "An explosive charge detonated while an Iraqi police vehicle patrol was passing by on Wednesday night on the main road in central Samarra," a source from the Salah ad-Din police department told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq. "The blast killed five policemen, destroyed one of the patrol's vehicles and damaged some nearby buildings," he also said.
Sulaiman Bek:
#1: Elsewhere, a roadside bomb attack in northern Iraq killed six police officers Thursday, Iraqi police said. The attack on the police convoy occurred about 8:30 a.m. in the Sulaiman Bek area about 75 miles south of the northern city of Kirkuk.
Kirkuk:
#1: Iraqi officials announced Thursday that insurgents exploded an oil well near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, sending black plumes of smoke billowing into the sky. An Iraqi army officer confirmed that the fire is the result of sabotage, adding insurgents planted a bomb in the well. The official said the insurgents took advantage of the sleeping guards. He said it could take weeks to extinguish the blaze.
Al Anbar Prv:
#1: The military announced Thursday that two U.S. soldiers were killed the day before while conducting combat operations in Iraq's volatile Anbar Province. Those deaths, along with the deaths of nine other soldiers and Marines announced Wednesday, brought the American death toll for the month to at least 82. Last month, 104 U.S. troops were killed in Iraq.
Fallujah:
#1: On Thursday, a parked car bomb targeting a funeral procession killed 20 people and wounded 35 others in the turbulent city of Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad, medical officials said. The funeral was being held for a man killed Wednesday when militants broke into his restaurant and shot him.
A suicide car bomb targeting mourners at a funeral killed at least 27 people and wounded more than 30 others in Falluja, west of Baghdad, hospital and police officials said
#2: The funeral was being held for Alaa Zuwaid, a 60-year-old restaurant owner who was part of a tribe that had formed an alliance with other tribal leaders against al-Qaida. Zuwaid was killed earlier Thursday morning when unknown militants shot him in front of his house, police said. His 25-year-old son was killed by militants nearly a month ago as he walked down the street.
Afghanistan:
#1: The battles in Helmand province on Wednesday involved both foreign troops and Afghan forces. A fight in Garmsir district killed 13 suspected militants, including the seven foreigners, the Interior Ministry said.
#2: Another five militants died in a joint operation in Helmand’s Sangin district, the ministry said.
#3: In the eastern province of Paktika, a local government leader, four policemen and a driver were killed when ammunition they were going to confiscate exploded, said provincial spokesman Ghamia Khan. It wasn’t immediately clear if the explosion was an accident or if the cache had been rigged, Khan said. An investigation was under way.
A bomb blast killed an Afghan district chief and five policemen in the eastern Paktika province on Thursday, provincial governor Akram Khapalwak told Xinhua. Sahar Gul, chief of Yahya Khil district, was inspecting some arms and ammunitions seized from insurgents when a bomb exploded suddenly and killed him and five policemen, Khapalwak said.
#4: Pakistani transporters supplying oil to US and NATO troops in Afghanistan have suspended supplies from a major refinery because of repeated militant attacks on tanker trucks at the border, a press report said Thursday. "We have decided to halt oil supply from the Attock Oil Refinery (AOR) to Afghanistan due to lack of any security network," said Shakir Afridi, president of the Transporters' Association, Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reported. During the past month alone, 23 oil tankers were destroyed by bombs and rockets while parked awaiting customs clearance at the Torkham crossing point by the Khyber Pass, Afridi said. Over the past four years, 174 vehicles were destroyed, 38 drivers were killed, 116 were injured and 15 were abducted, according to the official.
#1: Three Fiji nationals working for a security company in Iraq have been injured in a road side bomb blast. The Fiji Live website reports the men were injured in an incident in Baghdad on Monday. They are now in a hospital in Germany. The men are employed by Armour Group, which has an office in Fiji.
#2: In Baghdad, a bomb went off in the eastern suburb of Sadr City in a square where construction workers looking for employment assemble in the mornings. Witness accounts said the bomb had claimed many lives, but no further information on the death toll was as yet available. Since the square has been the scene of five such attacks since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, the police had cordoned off the area.
At least two people were killed and 15 wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a group of day labourers in Baghdad's Shi'ite Sadr city district, police said.
#3: Unidentified gunmen killed a senior official at Labor and Social Affairs Ministry while leaving his office in the Palestine street in eastern Baghdad, a police source said on Thursday. "Unknown armed men opened fire on Wednesday evening against Ali Salem Hassan Abbas, a general director in the Labor and Social Affairs Ministry, while leaving his office, killing him on the spot," the source, who asked not to be named, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq
#4: Thirteen people were killed and four others wounded when gunmen ambushed a minibus on a highway in northern Baghdad on Thursday, an Interior Ministry source said. "Gunmen opened fire on a KIA minibus on the highway that pass through the Hussieniyah neighborhood, killing 11 passengers," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. Afterwards, the attackers planted the minibus with a bomb before they fled the scene, which exploded later when the Iraqi police and civilians approached to the attacked minibus, killing two civilians and wounding four, including two policemen, the source said.
#5: A suicide car bomber killed one soldier and wounded two others at an Iraqi army checkpoint in the Iskan district of western Baghdad, police said.
#6: A suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest blew up himself inside a minibus, killing one passenger and wounding five in the Shaab district of northern Baghdad, police said.
Diyala Prv:
Nahr al-Bustan:
#1: At least six people were killed when gunmen opened fire on local residents at Nahr al-Bustan, a village near Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
Baquba:
#1: Police said they had found the bodies of three people who had been shot in Baquba.
Musiyyab:
#1: A body recovered by Iraqi police from the Euphrates River south of Baghdad was identified as one of three American soldiers abducted in an ambush claimed by al-Qaida, the military said Thursday. Military officials told the family of Pfc. Joseph Anzack Jr. that a commanding officer identified the remains recovered from the river, but that DNA tests were still pending.
Basra:
#1: A total of 133 persons were poisoned in the city of Basra from the high amount of chlorine in the drinking water, director of al-Madina hospital said on Thursday. "The hospital in northern Basra received 133 persons poisoned by chlorine and the critical cases were sent to the city's main hospitals for treatment," Dr Majed Mohammad Taqi told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq. "The incident occurred when a chlorine tube was thrown into the river and that led to a high rate of chlorine in the drinking water," he added, noting that all poison cases were treated.
Samarra:
#1: Five policemen were killed when an explosive charge went off near their vehicle patrol in the city of Samarra, a police source said on Thursday. "An explosive charge detonated while an Iraqi police vehicle patrol was passing by on Wednesday night on the main road in central Samarra," a source from the Salah ad-Din police department told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq. "The blast killed five policemen, destroyed one of the patrol's vehicles and damaged some nearby buildings," he also said.
Sulaiman Bek:
#1: Elsewhere, a roadside bomb attack in northern Iraq killed six police officers Thursday, Iraqi police said. The attack on the police convoy occurred about 8:30 a.m. in the Sulaiman Bek area about 75 miles south of the northern city of Kirkuk.
Kirkuk:
#1: Iraqi officials announced Thursday that insurgents exploded an oil well near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, sending black plumes of smoke billowing into the sky. An Iraqi army officer confirmed that the fire is the result of sabotage, adding insurgents planted a bomb in the well. The official said the insurgents took advantage of the sleeping guards. He said it could take weeks to extinguish the blaze.
Al Anbar Prv:
#1: The military announced Thursday that two U.S. soldiers were killed the day before while conducting combat operations in Iraq's volatile Anbar Province. Those deaths, along with the deaths of nine other soldiers and Marines announced Wednesday, brought the American death toll for the month to at least 82. Last month, 104 U.S. troops were killed in Iraq.
Fallujah:
#1: On Thursday, a parked car bomb targeting a funeral procession killed 20 people and wounded 35 others in the turbulent city of Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad, medical officials said. The funeral was being held for a man killed Wednesday when militants broke into his restaurant and shot him.
A suicide car bomb targeting mourners at a funeral killed at least 27 people and wounded more than 30 others in Falluja, west of Baghdad, hospital and police officials said
#2: The funeral was being held for Alaa Zuwaid, a 60-year-old restaurant owner who was part of a tribe that had formed an alliance with other tribal leaders against al-Qaida. Zuwaid was killed earlier Thursday morning when unknown militants shot him in front of his house, police said. His 25-year-old son was killed by militants nearly a month ago as he walked down the street.
Afghanistan:
#1: The battles in Helmand province on Wednesday involved both foreign troops and Afghan forces. A fight in Garmsir district killed 13 suspected militants, including the seven foreigners, the Interior Ministry said.
#2: Another five militants died in a joint operation in Helmand’s Sangin district, the ministry said.
#3: In the eastern province of Paktika, a local government leader, four policemen and a driver were killed when ammunition they were going to confiscate exploded, said provincial spokesman Ghamia Khan. It wasn’t immediately clear if the explosion was an accident or if the cache had been rigged, Khan said. An investigation was under way.
A bomb blast killed an Afghan district chief and five policemen in the eastern Paktika province on Thursday, provincial governor Akram Khapalwak told Xinhua. Sahar Gul, chief of Yahya Khil district, was inspecting some arms and ammunitions seized from insurgents when a bomb exploded suddenly and killed him and five policemen, Khapalwak said.
#4: Pakistani transporters supplying oil to US and NATO troops in Afghanistan have suspended supplies from a major refinery because of repeated militant attacks on tanker trucks at the border, a press report said Thursday. "We have decided to halt oil supply from the Attock Oil Refinery (AOR) to Afghanistan due to lack of any security network," said Shakir Afridi, president of the Transporters' Association, Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reported. During the past month alone, 23 oil tankers were destroyed by bombs and rockets while parked awaiting customs clearance at the Torkham crossing point by the Khyber Pass, Afridi said. Over the past four years, 174 vehicles were destroyed, 38 drivers were killed, 116 were injured and 15 were abducted, according to the official.
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