Friday, June 08, 2007

Iraq police chief's children held

BBC

Gunmen in Iraq have attacked the house of a senior police officer, killing his wife and 13 other people and taking away three of his children.

The attack took place late on Thursday on the house of Col Ali al-Jurani, the head of emergency police in the town of Kanaan, in Diyala province.

Diyala has been the scene of some of the worst violence in Iraq.

In southern Iraq, at least 16 people, including women and children, died in two car bomb blasts on Friday.

At least another 32 were injured in the attacks, which targeted a busy market and a bus station in the town of Qurna, 60km (35 miles) north of Basra.....

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