BAGHDAD - Ten people died Tuesday in violence in Iraq, including three police commandos killed during an assault in the capital and a TV anchorman who was shot in the north, security sources said.
A convoy of interior ministry commandos came under brief attack from gunmen armed with light weapons in Baghdad's Ghazaliya neighborhood who left three dead and seven wounded in their wake, police and medical sources said.
"The attackers fled quickly", an army officer said.
In eastern Mosul, 370 kilometers (230 miles) north of Baghdad, 45-year-old local public television anchorman Girgis Mahmud Mohammed was shot and killed, police said.
A policeman was shot dead in another part of the city, which is regularly the scene of lethal attacks.
North of Baghdad, three other people, including an Asian truck driver whose nationality was unknown, were killed in separate attacks that also left six wounded, including one woman, police sources said.
Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and six others wounded in an early morning attack on their convoy north of Baghdad, an Iraqi army officer said.
"The convoy was going to pick up a unit manning a checkpoint 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Baquba when a pick-up truck carrying a small boat exploded as the column passed by," Colonel Ismail Ibrahim said.
Baquba is the seat of Diyala province, 60 kilometers northeast of Baghdad, and the scene of frequent attacks against Iraqi security forces.
Finally, near Samarra, 125 miles north of Baghdad, three decapitated and partially decomposed bodies were discovered, a police source said.
05/31/2005 13:15 GMT