52 Iraqis Killed on Sunday, July 1, 2007, 56 and a US Soldier Killed on Saturday, 35-40 Bodies Discovered in Falloujah Mass Grave

The Iraq News Agency (INA) reported that Iraqis and a US soldier were killed on June , 2007.

- A suicide car bomb exploded on Al-Jadiriyah Bridge in Baghdad, killing the bomber and a civilian, and injuring four other civilians. It exploded prematurely before reaching the police checkpoint on the bridge.

- 5 policemen were killed in Al-Ramadi suicide bombing, 14 people were injured.

- 2 policemen were killed, five were injured by a roadside bomb, in Al-Zaiyouna neighborhood in Baghdad.

- 26 of Iraqis were killed and 17 were injured in the US forces attack on Sadr city, on Sunday.

- 20 police recruits were killed, 22 were injured by a suicide bomb in Al-Miqdadiyah.

- 7 people were killed and ten were injured when militiamen supported by the police attacked an Al-Dora area yesterday.

- A high ranking police officer, Dawood Sulaiman Suwaidan, was assassinated in Basra.

The (US) Associated Press news agency (AP) reported that only ten Iraqis were killed on July 1, 2007. The AP reported the following news.

Iraqi Civilian Death Toll in June Down 36 Percent From May, According to Government Figures

Around 1,200 Iraqi civilians were killed in violence in June, a 36 percent drop from the previous month and the lowest monthly toll this year, according to Iraqi government figures obtained Sunday.

(However, ccun.org published daily deaths from Arabic sources, particularly from INA showing that the Iraqi death toll is much higher than these official figures).

June saw heavy U.S. military casualties, with 101 American servicemembers killed. That made the toll from the April-June period - 331 - the deadliest quarter for U.S. troops in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion.

An officer at the Iraqi Interior Ministry's operations room said 1,227 Iraqi civilians were killed in June, along with 190 policemen and 31 soldiers. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the figures.

Seven Iraqi policemen were killed Sunday in two bombing attacks. A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed truck at a checkpoint at the entrance of the city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, killing five policemen, an officer in Fallujah said.

In eastern Baghdad, a roadside bomb exploded near policemen, killing two. After the blast, gunmen sped by in a car, spraying machine gun fire, wounding three policemen and three civilians in the capital's Zayouna neighborhood, a police officer said. Both officers spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to media.

Elsewhere in the capital, gunmen in a vehicle opened fire on a minibus carrying day laborers in the district of Saydiyah, killing one passenger and wounding four, police said.

Also Sunday, the bullet-riddled body of a senior police commander was discovered in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city about 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, police said.

Col. Nasser Hamoud, who was in charge of the city's prisons, had been kidnapped along with three of his guards the day before, another officer said on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal. The guards were released a few hours later, he said.

Hamoud's hands and legs were bound, and his body showed signs of torture, the officer said.

He was a member of the Fadhila party, which controls Basra's provincial government.

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