By IRNA,
Baghdad : Bombers targeting Iraqi and US security forces cut a deadly swath across Iraq on Monday, killing as many as 36 people including at least 15 cadets at a police academy in Baghdad.
Two of the attackers were among the dead, Iraqi officials said.
Also in the capital, an Iraqi army general escaped an
assassination attempt, but the roadside bomb targeting him killed one of his bodyguards.
The blast was intended for Maj. Gen. Mudher Mawla, who is overseeing the transition of tens of thousands of mainly Sunni Arab paramilitary fighters into the Iraqi security forces and other government entities.
Violence has dropped dramatically across Iraq in the last year, but bombings remain a daily threat.
The Iraqi death toll from bombings and other war-related violence for November was 339, compared with 278 in October, according to figures from the Health and Interior ministries.
The number is far lower than November last year, when 608 Iraqis died in war-related violence.
The United Nations’ Iraq envoy, Staffan de Mistura, predicted “spectacular attempts” by insurgents to disrupt the provincial elections and derail security gains made in recent months.
De Mistura made his comments at a news briefing Sunday, a day after a rocket slammed into Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone near the UN compound.
Two Bangladeshis working for a catering company that serves the United Nations were killed.