The Assyrian Democratic Organization
Baghdad- Albawaba
A?suicide car bomb exploded near Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi’s party headquarters Monday, killing?two police officers and two civilians and wounding 24 others, police said.
The blast near the headquarters of the Iraqi National Accord party occurred at 9:45 a.m. in the capital’s western district of Harithiya.
Police reports said the explosion took place when a yellow car tried to ram through a police blockade near the headquarters. Out of the 24 injured, 18 were policemen and six civilians.
Allawi’s party offices are located about 100 yards from his residence. Witnesses in the neighborhood said machine gun fire could be heard after the explosion, AP reported.
Later, there were casualties from a blast near a checkpoint entrance to the Green Zone, which houses the Iraqi government and US embassy, an American embassy spokesperson said, according to AFP.
Another attack took place in Balad, about 80 kilometers north of Baghdad, killing at least four Iraqi National Guardsmen and wounding 14, U.S. military spokesman Neal E. O’Brien said. The driver of the car bomb died in the blast.
In Dujail, 40 kilometres north of Baghdad, another suicide car bomb went off at a national guard station, killing seven guardsmen and injuring eight others, said Lieutenant Colonel Akram Ahmed.
In another incident, an Iraqi policeman was killed and two others were injured when a beheaded, booby-trapped corpse exploded in Mosul as police were trying to identify the body, a government statement said Monday.
In other attacks in northern Iraq Monday, 11 other national guardsmen and two civilians were killed in roadside bombs in Tikrit and Samarra, said police and the US military.
Meanwhile, six bodies were discovered Monday, three of them near Tikrit and the others by Dhuluiyah, police said, adding the dead had worked for the US military.
Two policemen were gunned down at a checkpoint in the refinery town of Baiji by gunmen in an Opel car, local police said.
4-1-2005
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