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Preacher among at least six killed in fresh Iraq violence
Nov 24, 2009, 14:04 GMT
Baghdad - At least six people, including a popular preacher at a mosque in Falluja, were killed in fresh violence across Iraq on Tuesday, police and witnesses told the German Press Agency dpa.
The witnesses said they saw the imam of get into his car outside al-Saqalawiyah mosque before the car exploded. The mosque is situated in the country's Sunni Muslim heartland, formerly the scene of some of the worst fighting between insurgents and US and Iraqi forces.
Falluja has been been quieter since the establishment of government-allied Sahwa or 'Awakening' militias.
At least two people were killed when an adhesive bomb stuck to the bottom of a car exploded in the southern Baghdad neighbourhood of al-Dora, police said.
Some 400 kilometres to the north, in Mosul, at least three Iraqi policemen were killed and at least one was injured when a bomb targeted their patrol.
Mosul and its environs are among the most ethnically diverse regions of Iraq, and among the most dangerous. Despite successive security operations that police say have netted hundreds of suspected insurgents, armed men continue to launch near-daily attacks in the area.
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