News, July , 2007
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54 Iraqis, US Soldier Killed on July 8, 2007, Death Toll Yesterday Reached 234 and 339 Injuries
Iraq News Agency (INA):
The Iraq News Agency (INA) reported that Iraqis and a US soldier were killed on July , 2007.
- 17 Iraqis killed, 27 injured by a suicide car bomb targeting them as they were lining up for recruitment in the police force in Al-Hasswa, east of Al-Falloujah.
- Ibrahim Hamdi and Khalaf Hazza'a, the two Arab members of the Ninawa Province Council, were assassinated in Mosul today. Their death gave Kurds the majority in the Council. The Kurdish leader, Massaud Barzani, demanded right away annexing more parts of the province to the Kurdish autonomous rule area.
- Police colonel, Abdul Karim Humaid, was assassinated with two of his guards in Baghdad.
- A senior army officer, Jawad Kadhem Al-Saheri, was also assassinated today in Baghdad.
- Two Iraqi employees of the US Embassy were assassinated in Baghdad.
- Seven people were killed, including two women and a gunman, in various attacks in Mosul today.
- Five people were killed, 20 were injured in two Baghdad car bomb explosions, near Al-Jadiriyah Bridge and Al-Hurriyah Square.
- Kurdish Beshmerga soldiers kidnapped 20 Iraqi Arabs in Kirkuk.
Saturday:
- Yesterday's death toll in Iraq reached 234 and 339 injuries, including 150 deaths and 250 injuries in Armili, the Turkomen town between Kirkuk and Tikrit.
There were attacks all over Iraq, south, north, and center.
Associated Press (AP):
The (US) Associated Press news agency (AP) reported 32 Iraqi deaths and one US soldier's death in Iraq war news today July 8, 2007.
By BUSHRA JUHI Associated Press Writer
Jul 8, 2007, 6:55 AM EDT
BAGHDAD (AP) --
A flurry of bombings in Baghdad killed 26 people Sunday, and officials said the death toll from a giant suicide truck blast that devastated the market of a town north of the capital a day earlier could be more than 130.
Officials earlier had said Saturday's bombing in the town of Armili killed 115 people, one of the deadliest attacks in Iraq in months.
Two car bombs detonated nearly simultaneously in Baghdad's Karrada district, killing eight people. The first hit at 10:30 a.m., near a closed restaurant, destroying stalls and soft drink stands. Two passers-by were killed and eight wounded, a police official said.
The area is near the offices of the Supreme Islamic Council in Iraq, the biggest party in parliament, and is believed to be among the most protected parts of the city.
About five minutes later, the second car exploded about a mile away, hitting shops selling leather jackets and shoes. Six people were killed and seven wounded, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
On Baghdad's southwestern outskirts, a bomb hit a truckload of newly recruited Iraqi soldiers being brought into the capital to join the crackdown, killing 15 soldiers and wounding 20, a police official at the nearest police station said, also speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
Also, a bomb hidden under a car went off at the entrance of Shorja market - a central Baghdad market - killing three civilians and wounding five, police said.
The U.S. military announced that an American soldier was killed in combat a day earlier in Salahuddin province. It did not provide details.
On Sunday, Amin put the toll at 150 dead, while Abbas al-Bayati, a Shiite Turkoman lawmaker, told reporters 130 had been killed.
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