http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/ML_IRAQ?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-08-13-07-54-56 BAGHDAD (AP) -- Bombings and shootings, including an attack near cafes and ice cream shops, killed five Iraqis and wounded 14 in the capital and a western town, officials said Saturday.
A roadside bomb on Saturday hit a joint Iraqi police-army patrol as it parked by a drinking water plant in the town of al-Baghdadi, local administrator Hikmat Jubeir said. The blast, at around 9 a.m., killed a soldier and a policeman and wounded another soldier, he said.
Al-Baghdadi town is in Anbar province, which was once a stronghold of the Sunni insurgency.
Also Saturday, gunmen in a speeding car shot and killed a Shiite cleric as he left an Electricity Ministry office in the New Baghdad district of the capital, a police officer said. The motive in the shooting was not immediately known, the officer said. A doctor at a nearby hospital confirmed the death.
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