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Three killed, 12 injured in Iraq attacks
Aug 23, 2010, 16:36 GMT
Baghdad - Three people were killed and 12 injured on Monday in separate attacks across Iraq, according to security sources.
Two people were killed and three injured when mortar shells landed on a residential district in the New Baghdad area, east of the Iraqi capital.
In Ramadi city, 110 kilometers west of Baghdad, one soldier died and six people, including a policeman, were injured in two attacks, sources told Yaqen news website.
Three soldiers were injured when unknown gunmen threw a hand grenade on a military checkpoint in al-Qahera neighbourhood, in the northern city of Mosul.
Security forces have increasingly been coming under attack from insurgents in recent months, as the US security presence in Iraq declines.
The US military, which led the invasion in 2003, still has a force of 52,000 in Iraq, all of whom are due to leave by the end of 2011.
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