Security Summary: June 11, 2007

Above: A patrol car burns after roadside bomb was set off next to a police commando patrol, killing two commandos and injuring three others in Samarra today.

DIYALA - A suicide car bomber blew up a major bridge over the Diyala River in the volatile Diyala province, police said. No injuries were reported.

BAGHDAD - Seventeen bodies were found with gunshot wounds in different districts of Baghdad in the past 24 hours, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen stormed into a house in central Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, killing four women and a man, police said.

MAHMUDIYA - A suicide car bomb attack on a checkpoint near a bridge killed three U.S. soldiers and wounded six more late on Sunday near Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. An Iraqi translator was also wounded.

SAMARRA - A roadside bomb targeting a police station killed two policemen and wounded three in Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

HAWIJA - Gunmen killed a man and wounded two others in a drive-by shooting in the town of Hawija, 70 km (40 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.

BAGHDAD - The bodies of 16 people who had been shot dead were found in the mostly Sunni western Karkh side of Baghdad on Sunday, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed Khaireddine Ahmed, the general director of the state-run central bank of Mosul, police said. Two of his guards were also killed.

MOSUL - Four people were found shot dead in Mosul on Sunday, police said.

TAL AFAR - Two people were killed and five wounded by a Katyusha rocket attack in the town of Tal Afar, 420 km (360 miles) north of Baghdad, on Sunday, police said.

TUZ KHURMATO - Two suspected insurgents were killed while trying to plant a roadside bomb in the town of Tuz Khurmato, 70 km (40 miles) south of Kirkuk, police said.

ISKANDARIYA - The local office of the Iraqi Islamic Party, the largest Sunni party in parliament, was badly damaged by a bomb on Sunday in the town of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

From Reuters/Alternet