At least 32 people were killed and 70 more were wounded in the latest violence. A number of the casualties occurred in Anbar, but the worst single attack took place in Tuz Khormato. Also, a man running for a post in Baghdad was assassinated.
Scores of air strikes occurred in Anbar province, while an army base in Ramadi was attacked with mortars. In Ramadi, army forces killed four suicide bombers. Five people were killed and 29 more were wounded during shelling in Falluja. It is unclear who was behind the shelling. In Garma, clashes left six gunmen dead and four Sahwa members wounded. Casualty figures from Anbar are not independently confimable.
A bomb in Tuz Khormato left five dead and at least 27 wounded.
In Mosul, gunmen killed two sheikhs. The police chief’s brother was killed in a roadside bombing. Two gunmen were killed in Mosul.
A bomb targeting an army commander in Baiji killed three bodyguards and wounded three bystanders.
Two people were killed and seven more were wounded in a bombing in Sadr City.
In Baghdad, gunmen assassinated an election candidate allied with Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Army forces raided two mosques.
Gunmen killed a civilian near Muqdadiya.
