 Militants in the northern city of Mosul targeted a U.S. patrol with a roadside bomb Tuesday that killed four civilians, and Baghdad shopkeepers and residents traded gunfire with masked insurgents, killing three of them along a main thoroughfare. Gunbattles erupted in the streets of the southern Baghdad neighborhood of Doura, where militants wearing black hoods and riding in three cars opened fire on people shopping on a main street. Shopkeepers and residents returned fire, killing three assailants. A man, woman and child were injured and taken to a hospital. Dr. Iyad Yass of al-Yarmouk hospital said four victims were admitted to the hospital with gunshot wounds. "Two of them are risky. One of them was admitted to the operative theatre," he said. Earlier, gunmen in the same quarter killed a policeman as he drove to work, said police Lt. Col. Hafidh Al-Ghrayri.
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In the south, officials found the corpses of six Iraqi soldiers, their hands bound and their bodies riddled with bullets. The U.S. patrol was hit by a homemade bomb in a northwestern neighborhood of Mosul, damaging a Humvee as it crossed a bridge, hospital officials said, citing witnesses. Four civilians in a car near the blast were killed, the officials said. It was unclear whether any American troops were hurt, and U.S. military officials were not immediately available for comment. |