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US kills 5 gunmen after attack on Baghdad base
Staff and agencies
The attackers opened fire on the joint U.S.-Iraqi security station at 1:20 a.m. in the eastern district of New Baghdad, the U.S. military statement reported. The soldiers returned fire, killing at least five of the assailants.
Hours later, a roadside exploded in the same district, tearing through a minibus and killing three civilians and wounding six others, Iraqi police said. The U.S. military set the toll at only two dead.
Elsewhere in the country, there was a rash of so-called "sticky bomb" attacks in which militants target certain individuals by attaching explosives to their vehicles.
Another bomb hidden under the car of a director-general in the Trade Ministry exploded in the garage of a hospital he was visiting, seriously wounding the official and a civilian, according to police and hospital officials.
The Iraqi officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren‘t authorized to release the information.
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