Todays last throws in Iraq : November 10th

Nov 10 (Reuters) - Following are security incidents reported in Iraq on Thursday, Nov. 10, as of 1500 GMT.







KUT - Iraqi troops found 27 bodies near Jassan, a town between Kut and the Iranian border in southern Iraq. The victims, blindfolded and with their hands bound, had been shot, army sources and a Reuters photographer who saw the bodies said.

BASRA - The Iraqi Islamic Party, one of the main Sunni political parties, said one of its officials and his bodyguard were wounded by a roadside bomb in Basra, in southern Iraq.

MOSUL - Two police officers were killed by gunmen in the northern city of Mosul, police said.

TIKRIT - Ten people were killed and 20 wounded when a car bomb exploded outside a recruiting centre in Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, hospital sources and police said.
BAGHDAD - Two Iraqi policemen were wounded when a car bomb exploded near an Iraqi police patrol in eastern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Three civilians were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded in eastern Baghdad, police said. The target of the bomb was not clear.

BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest blew himself up in a crowded Baghdad restaurant frequented by the security forces during breakfast, killing 35 people and wounding 25 more, police said. Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed the attack.

KIRKUK - Police said the brother of parliamentary speaker Hajem al-Hassani was abducted on Tuesday in the northern city of Kirkuk.

BAGHDAD - A man and a women working for the city council were killed by gunmen in the western Ghazaliya district of the capital, police said. The married couple were on their way to work when they were attacked.

BAGHDAD - Four policemen were injured when they were attacked by gunmen in southern Baghdad, police said.

BASRA - An intelligence officer was killed by gunmen in the southern city of Basra, intelligence officials said.