IRAQ: Tarmiya - Ten Iraqis, eight of them policemen, were shot dead by gunmen north of Baghdad yesterday, police and hospital sources said.
The men, who had left their police station wearing civilian clothes, were travelling in a minivan along with three other civilians when gunmen followed them in three cars and sprayed them with gunfire, police captain Karim al-Salmani said.
Baghdad - Police found four bodies in a western Baghdad district near a Sunni mosque, an interior ministry source said. Two of the bodies were found on the highway and the other two were found in a semi-built house in the area.
Nassiriya - Eleven Pakistani construction workers kidnapped in Iraq earlier in the month were released.
Kirkuk - Gunmen assassinated a counter-terrorism security official, Capt Ibrahim Saeed and his wife in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police said. n Samarra - One Iraqi policeman was killed when insurgents sprayed his vehicle with gunfire in the northern city of Samarra, police said.
Hit - The US military denied it bombed a wedding party in the western town of Hit on Friday.
Kirkuk - Three policemen were injured when a bomb blew up near their patrol in central Kirkuk, police Capt Ahmed Abdullah said. - (Reuters)