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Baghdad deputy police chief shot dead

5 other Iraqi cops, 3 Marines killed in attacks; 8 Ukraine troops die in accidental blast

Agencies, Baghdad
At least six police officers were killed including Baghdad's deputy police chief and his son in two separate attacks yesterday, as insurgents stepped up their attacks three weeks ahead of the country's landmark elections.
Over the weekend, US troops opened fire near a checkpoint south
of Baghdad after their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb, and a hospital official said Sunday at least eight peoplcwerekilled.
Brig. Amer Ali Nayef and his son, Lt Khalid Amer, were killed yester-dayi^by machine-fun fire sprayed train two cars driving parallel to the chief’s as he and his son drove to work, police said.
In a separate attack, a suicide car
bomb exploded in the courtyard of a police station in southern Baghdad Monday, killing at least four officers and injuring 10 others, police and witnesses said. A fake police, car packed with explosives was Used in the attack.
The explosion took place at 8 a.m, in the Zafarriiyah district, police commissioner Abdul Khaleq FROM PAGE 12
Hussein said. Witnesses said the explosion happened as policemen were changing shifts. An Associated Press photographer saw a number of bodies inside the courtyard that was cordoned off by police.
The killings were the latest in a series of attacks against ranking Iraqi security force officials and policemen on the eve of a landmark Jan. 30 election that insurgents are trying to disrupt. Last week, gunmen killed the governor of Baghdad, All al-Haidari, and sixofhis bodyguards.
Meanwhile, two US soldiers were killed and four wounded yesterday when a bomb blast ripped through an Abrams tank in southwestern Baghdad, the US army said.
"A patrol reported striking an improvised explosive device, destroying an Abrams tank. The wounded were evacuated to a military medical treatment facility," the 1st Cavalry Division said in a statement in Baghdad.
Another US Marine was killed in action on Sunday while conducting security and stability operations in the restive Al-Anbar province in western Iraq, the army said in a statement.
The US army statement, released Monday, gave no details of the deceased "pending next ofldnnotification".
The Ukrainian noop toll from an accidental bomb explosion in Iraq climbed to eight yesterday, after the defense ministry said one of the men wounded in the blast dicdin hospital.
In other violence Sunday, a US soldier assigned to Task Force Baghdad was killed by a roadside bomb, and a Marine was killed in action in the volatile Anbar province.