BAGHDAD: Violence in Iraq killed 11 people yesterday and an army official escaped an assassination attempt.
A roadside bombing targeting an army patrol in Mosul killed four soldiers. Also in Mosul, a suicide bomber blew himself up at an army checkpoint, killing a soldier and wounding 10 others, among them the provincial army intelligence chief Brigadier General Ismail Al Juburi, officials said.
Separate shootings in the city left two others dead. And in Muqdadiyah, militants stormed a Shia shrine and captured a family inside. They separated two of them, a father and a son, and killed them before bombing the shrine. In Basra, gunmen killed two Sunnis in separate attacks. AFP
