Targeted killings: Iraq bombings kill four

IRAQ: Two bombings targeting security forces in northern Iraq killed two policemen and two soldiers on Sunday evening, security and medical officials said. In the first attack in the town of Tuz Khurmatu north of Baghdad, a roadside bomb targeted an army patrol. The blast killed two soldiers and wounded two others, according to Doctor Mohammed Abdullah at the main hospital in the northern city of Kirkuk where the casualties were taken. Another bombing targeting a police patrol in Kirkuk killed two policemen and wounded two others, Abdullah and police Lieutenant Colonel Khaled al-Bayati said.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 3^rd, 2012.