Light violence left seven Iraqis dead and three more wounded. Also, the U.S. Dept. of Defense announced the death of a U.S. soldier on Thursday. He died from wounds received on June 6 during an indirect fire attack in Baghdad.
In Baghdad, gunmen killed a municipal worker in New Baghdad and murdered an army colonel on Palestine Street. A small arms attack in Karrada left one policeman with injuries.
A vegetable grocer was shot dead at his store in Abu Ghraib.
A pair of successive bomb blasts near a Baquba checkpoint killed three people and wounded two others.
Gunmen killed a Sahwa member in Kirkuk. A clash erupted between an M.P.’s protection force and that of the council.
A prisoner escaped in Mosul.
