Baghdad, April 13 (IANS) At least 21 people were killed and 45 wounded in separate violent attacks across Iraq Saturday, police and medical sources said. In Iraq's western province of Anbar, fierce clashes erupted in southern the provincial capital city of Ramadi, some 110 km from Baghdad, between Iraqi soldiers and gunmen, leaving eight militants killed and eight soldiers wounded, Xinhua citing police source as saying. Also in the province, three civilians were killed and 14 wounded by the army artillery shelling on several neighbourhoods in the besieged city of Fallujah, some 50 km from Baghdad, a hospital source said. In Baghdad, four policemen were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion near their patrol in Doura district, an interior ministry source said.
04-13-2014, 08:46 AM
21 killed, 45 injured in Iraq violence
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