Date:
Thursday, September 9, 2010
PeaceWomen Consolidated Themes:
Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
Continued militancy has taken the life of a woman in Iraq's northern province of Nineveh while others have been wounded in a separate incident in the capital.
Unknown gunmen killed a woman Tuesday afternoon in the al-Akidat region in central Mosul, Nineveh's provincial capital, a security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
“Policemen cordoned off the area and started an investigation into the incident,” he added.
On the same day, a sticky bomb went off in Baghdad's southern district of al-Doura.
The bomb, which was reportedly attached to a civilian car, left five people injured and damaged a number of nearby stores and vehicles.
Bombing attacks and shooting incidents have plagued Iraq on an almost daily basis since the 2003 invasion of the country by US-led forces.
