At least 10 killed, 14 wounded in Iraq violence

IraqBaghdad  -  At least 10 people were killed and 14 others wounded in separate incidents in Iraq, media reports and US military said Saturday.

In Tikrit, some 180 kilometres north of Baghdad, US forces killed five suspected terrorists during military operations, US military said. US forces also discovered weapons and some 900 explosives in the town.

In another incident, US forces killed two suspected terrorists and detained another seven in the northern city of Samara, US military said.

While searching for a senior leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist network west of the Iraqi capital, US forces killed a suspected terrorist and detained another six.

Separately, al-Arabiya news channel reported that a sponsor of the al-Qaeda network Amir Abd Zaid was arrested in Iraq on Saturday.

Iraqi police sources told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency that a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vehicle on Saturday, killing one member of the Awakening Councils and wounding another three in Amiriya area western Baghdad.

In Baghdad's Salikh area, a bomb went off targeting an Iraqi checkpoint injuring three soldiers.

Security sources told dpa that militants opened fire on civilians in the Karada area, central Baghdad, wounding six people, including three Iraqi traffic police.

In other news, one Iraqi soldier was killed and another two were wounded on Friday when a bomb went off targeting their vehicle in the Iraqi province of Diyala, VOI said on Saturday. (dpa)

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