At least nine die in Iraq violence

Roadside bombs and ambushes killed at least nine people and wounded 11 others in  Iraq today.

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Four civilians died when a roadside bomb exploded near Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad. Two Iraqi police were also shot dead in Samarra, police said.

In Baghdad a policeman was killed in an ambush in a western neighborhood.

One Iraqi soldier was shot dead in the Dora district of south Baghdad and an unidentified man was found dead in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood. His hands were cuffed and he had been shot in the head and legs.