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Local official killed south of Baghdad
May 28, 2009, 11:42 GMT
Baghdad - A local official was gunned down near the central Iraqi city of Diwaniya on Thursday, police there said.
Jawad Khaled, a member of the local municipal council and the local leader of Shiite cleric Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim's Supreme Islamic Council of Iraq, was fatally shot north of Diwaniya, 280 kilometres south of Baghdad, police told the German Press Agency dpa.
Thursday's shooting followed a car bomb attack that killed at least four civilians and a US soldier in Abu Ghraib on Wednesday.
Iraqi police said another 15 people were injured in the explosion, which targeted US soldiers near a medical compound in the western Baghdad suburb.
Two days prior, a bomb blast killed three US soldiers patrolling the streets of Baghdad, the US military said. Iraqi police said two civilians also died in that blast.
The soldiers' deaths brought the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq over the course of May to 20, the highest monthly toll of US fatalities in Iraq since last September, when 25 US soldiers were killed in the country.
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