Suicide car bomb kills two Iraqi soldiers in Baghdad
Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and 10 more injured early today when a suicide car bomb slammed into a checkpoint in northeast Baghdad, police said.
The attack came in the Shaab neighbourhood, one that just been cleared by American and Iraqi troops as part of the Operation Together Forward security drive in the capital.
The top US military spokesman in Iraq, Major General William Caldwell, told reporters yesterday there had been a spike in violence in Baghdad with the onset of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which officially began on Monday, and that suicide attacks were at their highest level ever.
“This has been a tough week,” he said.
A child was killed in the southern Baghdad neighbourhood of Dora when a mortar shell landed on a house, police said.
Seven policemen and three Iraqi Interior Ministry special forces were injured in three different bomb attacks in the capital.
Southwest of Samarra, a city 60 miles north of Baghdad, an oil pipeline was blown up and caught fire, police said. The pipe connected refineries in Beiji and Baghdad.
