Two killed, three injured in Baghdad

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: An Iraqi soldiers has been injured due to two Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blasts in western Baghdad. Two other citizens were killed and two employees from Iraq’s Municipalities & Works Ministry have been wounded in an attack using a gun with silencer attached north of Baghdad, according to a security source on Tuesday. “Two IED charges blew up targeting an Iraqi Army patrol in northwest Baghdad‘s Ghazaliya district, wounding a soldier and damaging the patrol’s vehicle,” the security source told IraqiNews.com news agency. The source said that “a group of armed men had shot dead two employees of the Municipalities & Works Ministry, wounding two of their other colleagues with silenced guns. The victims were in a Ministry car close to Ibn-Hayan square in northern Baghdad‘s Kazimiya district on Monday night.” SKH/SR 1