At least 12 people were killed in Iraq on Wednesday, including four in a double roadside bombing near a fuel station in Baghdad, medics and security officials said. Two bombs went off near the Al-Jhabha fuel station on the main Al-Kanal road passing through south-east Baghdad near the Al-Amin neighbourhood, a site of frequent clashes between security forces and militants.
SEVEN PEOPLE WERE WOUNDED:
"We have received bodies of four men killed in the attack and the seven wounded are also being treated here," a medic at the capital's Al-Kindi hospital said. A security official said the blasts occurred at around 7:30 am (0330 GMT) as people waited to fill their tanks before their morning commute.
Gasoline shortages across Baghdad often result in long early morning queues at the pump, a crowded and enticing target for militants. Later in the day, an Iraqi police officer was killed when gunmen opened fire on his patrol in central Baghdad, police said.
Insurgents have managed to carry out frequent attacks in Baghdad despite the massive presence of US and Iraqi troops on the streets as part of a crackdown launched on February 14. In the southern town of Sukh al-Shukh, near Nasiriyah, a child and a policeman were killed when a mortar shell hit a house in the centre of the town, police and a medic said. A woman was also wounded.
In the central city of Kut, gunmen shot dead a civilian on Wednesday in the Al-Jamahir neighbourhood, police Lieutenant Mohammed Jassim said. In the north, a group of gunmen assassinated a tribal Sheikh south of the oil city of Kirkuk while a civilian was gunned down in the eastern part of the city. And the US military reported the deaths of three soldiers killed by roadside bombs in Baghdad on Tuesday.
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