Christian Among 13 Killed in Iraq

Sunday: 13 Iraqis Killed, 26 Wounded

by | Dec 26, 2011 | 3 comments

At least 13 Iraqis were killed and 26 more were wounded during the later violence. In one attack, gunmen killed a Christian man despite tighter Christmas security.

A suicide car bomber killed two soldiers and wounded 20 others, including many civilians, at a Dujail checkpoint.

Gunmen attacked a checkpoint in Garma where they killed six policemen and wounded two others.

A gunman killed two people near Suleimaniya in Arbat.

In Mosul, a Christian man was shot dead near his home on Christmas day.

Gunmen killed a policeman in Falluja.

In Baghdad, a bomb wounded four people in the Amil district.

A bomb targeting an Iraqiya party member and ministry official in Tikrit left no casualties.

Mortars hit Camp Ashraf, but no casualties were reported by a camp spokesperson. Baghdad signed a U.N. agreement moving the group to a new home before eventual resettlement.

Margaret Griffis is a journalist from Miami Beach, Florida and has been covering Iraqi casualties for Antiwar.com since 2006.

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