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BAGHDAD, March 13 (UPI) -- Five people were killed and several injured in a series of attacks Friday in Basra and Mosul, authorities said.
Additionally, eight Iraqis were reported seriously injured in three bombings by improvised explosive devices in suburbs of Baghdad, al-Sumaria television network reported.
Among those killed in Basra was Sheik Abdullah Adnan Al Tamimi, a South Scholars group candidate. Two other men were killed in gunfire at another location in Basra.
In Mosul, gunmen opened fire on a policeman in front of his house in the Al Nabi Younes District in central Fardou city. Another policeman was killed in an explosion targeting a patrol in the Al Maamoun region in southern Mosul.
Two other Mosul roadside bomb blasts injured Police Brig. Samil Al Waili and two bodyguards in one explosion and Civil Defense Maj. Taha Khudair in the other.
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