Security Summary: December 5, 2006

A young Iraqi inspects ruins of a bakery damaged in a car bomb attack on Monday

BAGHDAD - Police found about 60 bodies in Baghdad on Tuesday, Interior Ministry sources said.

TIKRIT - A U.S. soldier was killed and another was wounded after an explosion hit their vehicle in Diyala province on Monday, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.

RAMADI - Iraqi troops and police in western Anbar province killed 63 insurgents during a two-hour battle, a local official said. Ahmad al-Dulaimi, chief of staff at the governor's office, said the fighting started when rebels launched an attack on a local police station and the governor's residence in Ramadi. The U.S. military could not immediately confirm the figures.

BAGHDAD - Mortar rounds hit a market killing two people and wounding 10 others in Qahira district in northern Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - Police found the body of a policeman, who was kidnapped on Friday, buried in a house in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad. Two kidnappers were arrested, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb in a market killed two people and wounded nine in Amil district in southwestern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two mortar rounds landed on a market, killing two people and wounding five in northern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Three car bombs near a fuel station killed 16 people and wounded 25 in the southwestern Bayaa district of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen ambushed a bus carrying employees for the Shi'ite Endowment, a religious body that oversees Shi'ite mosques, in northern Baghdad, killing 14 people and wounding four, the organisation said. An Interior Ministry source said 15 were killed and seven wounded in the attack in Qahira district.

BAGHDAD - Insurgents attacked a U.S. patrol on Monday, killing one U.S. soldier and wounding five others in northeastern Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

MAHMUDIYA - A car bomb in a vegetable market killed one person and wounded two others in Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army arrested 35 insurgents during the last 24 hours in different parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said on Tuesday.

From Reuters/Alternet