IRAQ: Across Iraq, bombings and shootings killed at least 33 people yesterday. Ten people were killed in a spate of shootings in the predominantly Shiite southern city of Basra.
Gunmen in both police and civilian vehicles gunned down victims including four students outside the city's university and a well-known doctor who was leaving her house, said a Basra police captain.
In Karmah, west of Baghdad, a roadside bomb killed five Iraqi soldiers, police Lt Ahmed Ali said. Gunmen stormed into the house of a Shiite family in Balad Ruz, 45 miles north-east of Baghdad, killing the mother and four adult sons and injuring the father, provincial police official Khalil Yacoub said.
Two policemen in a patrol car were killed by gunmen in a passing car in the center of Fallujah, police Lt Husam Mohammed said.
In the northern city of Mosul, gunmen killed a member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, police Brig Saed Ahmed said. - (AP)