At least 10 dead in Iraq attacks

Published November 9th, 2008 - 07:16 GMT

At least 10 people were killed and dozens injured on Sunday in bomb attacks across Iraq. Four people died when a bomb planted on a motorcycle went off in a crowded market in the town of Khalis in Diyala province, according to security officials and medics, cited by AFP.

 

Another 13 people were HURT in the afternoon bombing, including an Iraqi police officer in charge of coordinating security operations in the town, said Dr Ahmed Ibrahim Hassan, a staff member at Khalis hospital.

 

Earlier, a female suicide bomber blew herself up in front of a hospital near the city of Fallujah, killing a woman, a doctor and his wife, security officials said. Another seven people were wounded in the blast.

 

In the northern city of Mosul three Iraqi soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb targeting an army patrol. Another four soldiers were wounded in the blast. Elsewhere in the city a suicide car bomb targeting a police patrol wounded 11 people, including five civilians, according to police.