. Medical and Hospital News .




.
IRAQ WARS
Suicide bomber in wheelchair kills two in Iraq
by Staff Writers
Baghdad (AFP) June 26, 2011

A suicide bomber in a wheelchair attacked a police station north of Baghdad on Sunday, killing two people and wounding 17, nine of them policemen, officials said.

"A suicide bomber detonated his explosives vest at the entrance to a police station, killing two civilians and wounding 17 people, including nine policemen in Tarmiyah," a town north of Baghdad, an interior ministry official said. A defence ministry official confirmed the report.

"The suicide bomber came up to the entrance in a wheelchair," said Colonel Tawfiq Ahmed al-Jenabi, chief of the town's police, who added he did not know if the attacker was genuinely handicapped.

Meanwhile, two people were wounded by an improvised bomb that exploded next to a convoy transporting Mohammed Ahmed al-Obaidi, mayor of the town of Al-Riyadh in the restive northern province of Kirkuk.

Obaidi, who escaped unhurt and spoke to AFP after the attack, lost a foot in a similar bombing in June last year.

Twenty-four people were killed on Thursday in three separate attacks in Baghdad, including 21 in a triple bombing at a crowded market, and an American contractor working for USAID whose convoy was hit by an improvised bomb.




Related Links
Iraq: The first technology war of the 21st century

.
Get Our Free Newsletters Via Email
...
Buy Advertising Editorial Enquiries


Two US soldiers killed in Iraq
Baghdad (AFP) June 26, 2011 - Two American soldiers were killed in northern Iraq on Sunday, the US military said, making this month the deadliest for American personnel in more than two years.

"Two US service members were killed today while conducting operations in northern Iraq," the military said in a statement.

Since June 1, 11 US soldiers have been killed in Iraq -- making it the deadliest since May 2009.

Sunday's deaths take the overall US death toll since the March 2003 invasion to 4,465, according to an AFP count based on the independent website, www.icasualties.org.

Nearly 50,000 American troops are still in Iraq, down from a peak of more than 170,000 after the invasion.





. Comment on this article via your Facebook, Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail login.

Share this article via these popular social media networks
del.icio.usdel.icio.us DiggDigg RedditReddit GoogleGoogle



IRAQ WARS
Iran, Iraq to shut down Camp Ashraf: Talabani
Tehran (AFP) June 25, 2011
Iran and Iraq have formed a joint committee with the Red Cross to shut down Camp Ashraf in Iraq which houses thousands of outlawed Iranian opponents, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said on Saturday. "The camp will be shut down by the end of this year," Talabani said on the sidelines of a counter-terrorism summit in Tehran, the official IRNA news agency reported. "For this, a tripartite c ... read more


IRAQ WARS
TEPCO suspends water recycling due to leak

Japan PM adds nuclear, reconstruction posts amid crisis

New Orleans police on trial for post-Katrina killings

Panel urges Japan PM to end nuclear crisis

IRAQ WARS
Le Bourget contracts complete Galileo network

Galileo's Soyuz launchers arrive at French Guiana

Cont-Trak offers reliable container tracking via satellite

Helping shape space-based technology policies

IRAQ WARS
Researchers find smart decisions for changing environmental times

Can humans sense the Earth's magnetism

Walker's World: Here come the 'age wars'

Family genetic research reveals the speed of human mutation

IRAQ WARS
Tongue makes the difference in how fish and mammals chew

Spectacular discoveries in New Guinea

Scientists uncover an unhealthy herds hypothesis

Model helps pinpoint cyanobacterial genes that capture the sun's energy

IRAQ WARS
Hong Kong confirms second scarlet fever death

More Reseach and Funding Needed to Fight Diseases Affecting Global Poor

Lyme disease tick adapts to life on the fragmented prairie

'My dishwasher is trying to kill me'

IRAQ WARS
Freed China critic says wants to resume activism

China releases human rights activist Hu Jia

China's Wen visits Britain amid release of rights activist

Hu Jia's rights crusading angered Chinese leaders

IRAQ WARS
Denmark to hand over 24 pirates to Kenya for trial

Chinese ship released by pirates: EU

South Korea jails Somali pirates

US Navy recruits gamers to help in piracy strategy

IRAQ WARS
Lagarde gets China nod ahead of IMF decision

EU wants Greek consensus on austerity cuts

Outside View: Federal Reserve ending QE2

Fed slashes US economic outlook


Memory Foam Mattress Review
Newsletters :: SpaceDaily Express :: SpaceWar Express :: TerraDaily Express :: Energy Daily
XML Feeds :: Space News :: Earth News :: War News :: Solar Energy News
.

The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, are Copyright 1995-2011 - Space Media Network. AFP and UPI Wire Stories are copyright Agence France-Presse and United Press International. ESA Portal Reports are copyright European Space Agency. All NASA sourced material is public domain. Additional copyrights may apply in whole or part to other bona fide parties. Advertising does not imply endorsement,agreement or approval of any opinions, statements or information provided by Space Media Network on any Web page published or hosted by Space Media Network. Privacy Statement