Civilian killed, 4 injured in attacks in Iraq's Diyala

A civilian was killed and four others wounded in separate attacks on Saturday, while the Iraqi security forces arrested 22 suspects during the day, the police told Xinhua.

Gunmen opened fire from their assault rifles on four people from one family in the al-Ja'ar area, some 40 km northeast of Diyala's capital city of Baquba, killing one of them and wounding the other three, a source from the provincial operations command said on condition of anonymity.

The Iraqi security forces rushed to the scene and arrested two suspects for interrogation, the source said.

In a separate incident, gunmen wounded a man near his house in western the city of Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, the source added.

Also in the province, the police arrested seven suspects believed to be members of a cell affiliated to the Islamic Army, an anti-U.S. powerful Sunni insurgent group, in western Baquba, the source said.

Diyala province, which stretches from the eastern edges of Baghdad to the Iranian border east of the country, has long been a stronghold for al-Qaida militants and other insurgent groups since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Source: Xinhua

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