Bombing Kills Two Policemen in Peshawar

PESHAWAR,Pakistan: A bomb ripped through a police vehicle, killing two policemen and wounding five people here early on Friday, officials said.

“It was a remote-controlled bomb packed with steel pellets, which was planted on the roadside,” senior police official Mohammad Karim Khan said.

Doctor Attaullah Arif at the city’s main Lady Reading Hospital said two policemen were killed and five people wounded, including three police.

The left side of the patrol vehicle, which can seat around six policemen in the back of the cabin, was badly damaged with four or five berets discarded next to splashes of blood, said an AFP correspondent.

The attack came around 14 hours after a suicide bomber struck a court in Peshawar killing 19 people, the sixth attack in 11 days as arm forces presses a major offensive against the Taliban in South Wazirstan.

13 Tribe Memebers Killed In Iraq

BAGHDAD : Gunmen in Iraqi army uniforms launched execution-style attacks West of Baghdad on Monday, killing 13 members of a tribe who took up arms against Al-Qaeda, a villager and security official said.

Also on Monday, six people died and seven were wounded when a booby-trapped car exploded at a market in the ethnically mixed Northern city of Kirkuk, police said.

Gunmen swarmed into the Saidan district of Zouba, 20 kilometres from Baghdad, overnight and took six residents from their homes, lined them up in a field and shot them dead, said resident Mohammed al-Zoubai.

The killers then burst into the home of Attala Ouda al-Shuker, a leader in the Sahwa (Awakening) movement.

“They killed three of his sons and four cousins,” he said, adding that all those killed were members of the Zouba tribe. The attackers then dumped the bodies at the local cemetery, he added.

Major General Qassim Atta, spokesman for the army’s Baghdad operation, confirmed the toll but gave a different account. “The first indications we have is that 13 people were killed in a tribal conflict,” he said.

An interior ministry official said armed men arrived in eight off-road cars resembling army vehicles during the night in Zouba village.

They took 13 people and drove them to a cemetery a few kilometres away, where “eight were killed with a bullet in the head after being tortured and five had their throats slit,” the official said.

In Kirkuk, a car blew up in the old market of Khan al-Tumur in the town centre, killing six people and wounding seven, according to police Colonel Salam Zangana.

The blast caused extensive damage to shops and the fronts of buildings, an AFP correspondent reported.