At least 14 killed in Iraq violence Sun Apr 23， 12:02 PM ETBAGHDAD (AFP) - Violence across Iraq has killed 14 people， including seven people in a rocket attack on the country's defense ministry and three US soldiers in a roadside ADVERTISEMENT Seven Iraqis were killed when insurgents fired two Katyusha rockets into Iraq's defense ministry parking lot， the ministry said in a The explosions， which also wounded eight people， shook the sprawling Green Zone enclave， a fortified US and Iraqi site that is home to the US embassy and the Iraqi The statement Sunday clarified earlier reports which had attributed the killings to a mortar Meanwhile， the US military said three of its soldiers died when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb northwest of Baghdad at 11:30 am (0730 GMT) Sunday， but did not give further The latest fatalities brought the US military death toll in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion to 2，392， according to an AFP count based on Pentagon Two people， including a child， were killed in a roadside bombing in the town of Mahmudiyah， south of B Seven children were also wounded in the incident， the US military said in a In an attack on a police convoy in northern Salaheddin province， one police officer was killed and another wounded when their vehicle was hit by a roadside Insurgents also fired two mortars at Iraq's interior ministry and three mortars at Al-Shaab stadium in Baghdad， but there were no casualties， an interior ministry official In Baghdad's al-Dura district， one person died and another was injured when a mortar landed on their house， causing it to collapse and setting it Gunmen kidnapped the manager of a gas station in Baghdad's Shiite Kadhimiyah neighborhood， the interior ministry official He added that police commandos also found six bullet-riddled bodies of young civilian men in northern Baghdad's al-Salekh Hundreds of bodies of men， many bearing marks of torture， have been recovered across Iraq in the last few The men are believed to have been killed in apparent sectarian attacks unleashed after the bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra on February Also Sunday， insurgents bombed the house of Ali Jassem al-Saadi， the mayor of Al-Mashruq， a town south of B The mayor escaped unscathed but his child was wounded， police _mideast_afp/iraqunrest;_ylt=Av6ahoKWILk297zUTVmMz534T0D;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--
