BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 9 (NNN-NINA) – Two people and two would-be suicide bombers were killed and six others wounded Saturday, in separate attacks in the Iraqi provinces of Kirkuk and Diyala, military officials said.
In the northern province of Kirkuk, a policeman was killed and two others wounded, in a roadside bomb explosion near a police vehicle at al-Sadouniyah village, in the south-west of the provincial capital Kirkuk, which itself is located some 250 km north of Baghdad.
Also in the province, a roadside bomb went off in al-Asriyah village, leaving a civilian killed and wounding a policeman.
In Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala, a military intelligence force clashed with a would-be suicide bomber, in the town of Mandali, some 150 km north-east of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, and shot him dead, while a police officer was wounded during the clash, Sadiq al-Husseini, head of the security committee in Diyala’s provincial council, said.
The troops killed the suicide bomber before he could reach his target, which apparently was a nearby park, where many families gather, to celebrate the Eid al-Fiter.
Also in Diyala, security forces conducted an operation, based on intelligence, to hunt down Daesh militants in al-Neda, in the eastern part of the province, killing a suicide bomber and arresting three militants, Faisal al-Abadi, the provincial police chief, said.
In a separate incident, a farmer was wounded in a roadside bomb explosion at an orchard outside the town of Khanaqin, some 165 km north-east of Baghdad, Samir Mohammed Noor, mayor of the city, said.– NNN-NINA
