More than ten people died across Iraq in a series of bombings and shootings, as the education ministry denied a report that two teachers had been slaughtered in front of their pupils. On Wednesday, a government national security statement said armed men had stormed into two Baghdad schools and slit two teachers' throats in view of the children. This was, however, denied Thursday by the education ministry.
On Thursday, two policemen lost their lives in a roadside bombing against a passing patrol in Al-Khalis, 80 kilometers northeast of Baghdad. One policeman died and two others injured in a similar roadside bombing also against a police patrol in the city of Baquba, 60 kilometers northeast of Baghdad.
In two separate shootings, gunmen killed four civilians in and around Baquba, a security official said.
Gunmen also killed two Shiites in a drive-by shooting in the southern Baghdad neighborhood of Um al-Maalif. Elsewhere, the bodies of two Shiites were found.
According to the AP, two civilians died and five injured in a car bombing attack near a British military patrol near the southern city of Basra.
A roadside bomb against a convoy carrying General Mohammed Namah, the head of operations command in the interior ministry, killed one civilian, a ministry official said. Meanwhile, a former officer from Saddam Hussein's security forces was shot dead as he stood near his house in the Shiite city of Karbala.
