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| Thursday, 27 January 2005 |
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Rebels kill 11 in attacks before Iraqi poll BAGHDAD, Wednesday (Reuters) Insurgents killed 10 Iraqis and an American in a string of attacks, fired on party offices and kidnapped three election workers on Wednesday, stepping up a bloody campaign to sabotage Sunday's landmark national ballot. A U.S. Marine transport helicopter ferrying troops crashed in the deserts of western Iraq, raising fears of a heavy toll. The military withheld information on casualties as search and rescue teams scoured the area. The latest surge of attacks appeared aimed at sowing fear even as the U.S.-backed interim government vowed stringent security measures to safeguard the election, Iraq's first since the fall of dictator Saddam Hussein in April 2003. Three suicide car bombers hit the town of Riyadh, a restive Sunni Arab area, near the northern city of Kirkuk. Two explosives-laden cars blew up simultaneously close to an Iraqi army post and police station and a third vehicle exploded minutes later on a nearby highway, a local police chief said. Four Iraqi policemen, two Iraqi soldiers and three civilians were killed, and at least 12 people were wounded, police said. Shortly after the blasts, a U.S. combat patrol heading to the scene came under small arms fire and two U.S. soldiers were lightly wounded, the military said. A U.S. soldier was killed in a rocket-propelled grenade attack north of Baghdad. |
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