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Roadside bomb kills Iraqi governor, police chief
11 Aug 2007 14:07:36 GMT
Source: Reuters
DIWANIYA, Iraq, Aug 11 (Reuters) - The governor and police chief of Iraq's southern Qadisiya province were killed in a roadside bombing on Saturday, police said.

Police said the two men had been returning to Diwaniya, the provincial capital, from a funeral for a tribal sheikh 30 km (18 miles) south of the city when the bomb hit their convoy of four-wheel drives.
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An aerial view of the village of Kahtaniya, one of two villages struck on Tuesday by garbage trucks packed with explosives, west of Mosul, northwest of Baghdad August 16, 2007. Angry members of a minority sect said on Thursday they feared annihilation and pleaded for help, after suicide attackers killed scores in possibly the worst such bomb attack of the Iraq conflict.



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