Two police killed in troubled Iraq city on Muslim holiday

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Media: AFP
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Date: 24 October 2006

AMARA, Iraq, Oct 24, 2006 (AFP) - Gunmen killed two Iraqi policemen in the
southern city of Amara on Tuesday, a Muslim holiday marred by tensions
following clashes between police and Shiite militias, a security source
said.

The source, asking not to be named, said Captain Hussein Salah of the
criminal police was gunned down at his home, in an attack that also left
two of his brothers wounded.

A colleague in the same branch of the police, Ala Ghleim, was killed under
similar circumstances, he said.

The Iraqi army declared a curfew in the Shiite city on Monday after two
days of violence last week in which at least 24 people were killed and the
Mahdi Army militia burned down two police stations.

In Baghdad, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki issued a warning to the militias,
particularly those in Amara's Meysan province, "to refrain from any armed
action that violates security".

With the curfew apparently having been eased, Shiite inhabitants of the
city on Tuesday were out celebrating the Eid al-Fitr feast which marks the
end of the holy month of Ramadan, amid holiday traffic on the roads.
 
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