Violence acts leave 14 killed, 26 wounded across Iraq

BAGHDAD/IraqiNews.com: At least 14 individuals were killed and 26 others wounded in violence acts that took place across Iraqi cities through the past 24 hours. Security sources said.  In Baghdad, a car bomb targeting the motorcade of the Labor and Social Affairs minister in al-Tahrir square in central Baghdad, leaving ten persons were killed and 20 others injured on Thursday.  In Diwaniya, the commander of the protection force of the Diwaniya’s establishments died on Thursday of wounds he sustained in a bomb blast in Baghdad, the media director of the Diwaniya police department said. In Ninewa, gunman today was instantly killed, while another was seriously wounded, when a roadside bomb that they were attempting to plant went off, while a police force was surrounding them, central Zamar city (60 km west of Mosul),” police Brigadier Faraj Kheri-Beg said.  In WASSIT, a civilian was killed and another one was injured on Thursday by random police fire in central Kut, said a police source.  In DIALA, a woman was killed and another woman and a man were injured on Thursday by U.S. fire in central Baaquba, a police source said. AM(S) 1