News From Iraq

The following are security and other developments in Iraq on Saturday:

KIRKUK - A car bomb killed three people and wounded 15 when it blew up near a petrol station in central Kirkuk, city police chief Torhan Abdul-Rahman said.

BAGHDAD - Insurgents killed four U.S. Marines in action in Iraq's restive Anbar province on Thursday, the U.S. military said. They gave no further details.

SUWAYRA - Police said they pulled two headless corpses wearing military uniform from the Tigris river in the town of Suwayra, 60 km (38 miles) southeast of Baghdad.

NEAR TIKRIT - A woman was killed and two others wounded when a mortar hit a house in the small town of al-Alam, near Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAIJI - One policeman was killed and another wounded when gunmen opened fire in a drive-by shooting on their patrol in the oil refinery city of Baiji, 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - A minibus driver was killed when three gunmen in a car opened fire on him in southeastern Mosul 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police colonel Karim Khalaf said.

NAJAF - An Iraqi soldier shot dead a policeman after an argument at a checkpoint in Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, a security source said.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi security forces said they had arrested over 60 suspected insurgents in different parts of Iraq in the last 24 hours. One policeman was killed during the raids.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi forces captured a foreign fighter on Thursday in a raid on the Abu Ghraib district in western Baghdad, the U.S. military said. The statement did not say what nationality the fighter carried.

BAGHDAD - A grenade attack wounded 12 people as they queued for temporary labour work in central Baghdad, police said.

DIWANIYA - Seven police were wounded in a joint U.S. and Iraqi raid against members of the Mehdi Army, a powerful militia loyal to Shi'ite firebrand Moqtada al-Sadr. The incident took place in the town of Diwaniya, 180 km (112 miles) south of Baghdad, police and hospital sources said.

BAGHDAD - Six people, including three policemen, were wounded by a roadside bomb near a police patrol in the capital's northern Waziriya district, police said.