Iraq: At least three killed as search for missing US troops goes on

Published May 15th, 2007 - 12:25 GMT

Three people were killed and six more wounded in separate attacks in Iraq, police said on Tuesday. 

 

Elsewhere, a car bomb parking at a commercial area in the Iraqi city of Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, wounding four people, a local police source said, citing first police report.

 

Meanwhile, American forces have questioned hundreds of people and detained 11 in the search for three soldiers captured by al-Qaeda during a weekend ambush south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Tuesday.

 

"We have conducted more than 450 tactical interviews and detained 11 individuals" as of Monday night, U.S. military spokesman Lt. Col. Christopher Garver said, according to the AP. "We are working with the Iraqi army and the Iraqi police in searching for our missing soldiers. We're also communicating with the local population for information, for support and the local population continues to be helpful in providing tips," Garver added.