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Gun, Bomb Attacks Kill 15 in Iraq

   VOA News 10 May 2010

   Officials  in Iraq say at least 15 people were killed during a wave of
   shootings and bomb attacks targeting police and military personnel.
   Officials  say gunmen using automatic weapons attacked six checkpoints
   in east and west Baghdad, killing seven Iraqi soldiers and policemen.
   In the southern part of the city,  two people were killed in at least
   two separate bomb explosions targeting police officers.
   At least 26 people were wounded in the coordinated attacks.
   In  the  western province of Anbar, at least four bombs were detonated
   outside  of the homes of police officers leaving four people dead, and
   several  injured.  Those  attacks took place in and around the city of
   Fallujah.
   Also  in  the  northeastern  city  of Mosul, two Kurdish soldiers were
   killed  when  a  suicide bomber detonated a car bomb near a checkpoint
   manned by Iraqi and Kurdish forces.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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