The attacks wounded over 80 people.
Earlier, in the nearby Khadra neighborhood, gunmen ambushed a car carrying three plainclothes police officers, killing two and wounding the third.
Meanwhile, U.S. and Iraqi troops freed another 12 hostages in the western Al-Anbar Governorate today and killed nine alleged insurgents, one day after freeing five people in a similar raid, the military said.
(Reuters, AFP, AP)
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Earlier, in the nearby Khadra neighborhood, gunmen ambushed a car carrying three plainclothes police officers, killing two and wounding the third.
Meanwhile, U.S. and Iraqi troops freed another 12 hostages in the western Al-Anbar Governorate today and killed nine alleged insurgents, one day after freeing five people in a similar raid, the military said.
(Reuters, AFP, AP)
Iraq In Transition
Iraq In Transition
THE COMPLETE STORY: RFE/RL's complete coverage of events in Iraq and that country's ongoing transition.
