Iraq Army Regiment Commander Killed, Four of His Bodyguards Injured

An Iraq army regiment commander was killed and four of hisCommander Killed bodyguards were injured on Saturday 8, March in an IED explosion north of Baquba.

A security source in Diyala said that a regiment commander of the Fifth Division of the Army was killed and wounded four of his bodyguards were injured in the bombing of a roadside bomb targeted his convoy in Wadi Arkob area / 30 km north of Baquba.

In Sharqat, north of Baghdad, gunmen shot dead Mohammed Hussein Hamid, who was running in parliamentary elections scheduled for next month on Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlak’s list.

Hamid was the second parliamentary candidate to be killed this year, after gunmen shot dead Hamza al-Shammari last month.

In Samarra, also north of Baghdad, a shooting at checkpoint killed two secondary school students and a policeman, while a roadside bomb in a village south of Sharqat killed two children.

And a shooting killed one person in the northern city of Mosul, one of the most dangerous parts of the country.