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Mosul, Iraq (AFP) July 11, 2010 Gunmen shot dead two policemen in the main northern city of Mosul on Sunday while a soldier and a pro-government militiaman were killed in separate attacks, security sources said. Gunmen opened fire at the policemen in the central Zangili neighbourhood of Mosul and then fled, the police said. Outside the city, on the road to Baghdad, another soldier was wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up. A soldier was meanwhile killed in Tel Afar northwest of Baghdad when unidentified assailants threw a hand grenade at a patrol, the military said. A fourth person was killed when a bomb exploded in Baquba, the capital of Diyala province north of Baghdad, police there said. The victim was a member of the anti-Qaeda Sahwa militia, police said. Another member of the militia which had joined with US and Iraqi forces in 2006 and 2007 to fight the Islamist militants was hurt in the blast. Although overall levels of violence in Iraq have fallen markedly since their peak in 2006 and 2007, deadly attacks against civilians and security forces in Baghdad occur almost every day. Attacks are also frequent in Diyala and Nineveh provinces. Mosul, the capital of the mainly Sunni province of Nineveh, has remained a hotbed of insurgent activity even as levels of political violence have fallen off in much of the rest of the country.
earlier related report The attack struck at 7:00 am (0400 GMT) in Ghazaliyah, a Sunni majority neighbourhood and former stronghold of insurgents in the west of the capital. Although overall levels of violence in Iraq have fallen markedly since their peak in 2006 and 2007, deadly attacks against civilians and security forces in Baghdad occur almost every day. On Thursday, the United Nations warned in its latest human rights report that although unrest in the country had declined since 2008, "attacks deliberately targeting religious and ethnic groups continue unabated." A string of attacks against Shiite pilgrims between Tuesday and Thursday killed 70 people in Baghdad, security officials said, highlighting the continued ability of insurgents to inflict bloodshed. The death toll was another blow to the leaders of a country which remains dogged by sectarian strife and has only a caretaker government more than four months after a general election in which no clear winner emerged.
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