Meanwhile, in Baghdad, gunmen shot dead a restaurant owner in his restaurant in Doura district, a police source said. Separately, a police officer was critically wounded when a sticky bomb attached to his car detonated while he was driving in the town of Madain, some 30 km from Baghdad, the source said.
According to the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, almost 7, 000 Iraqis were killed and over 16,000 others injured from January to October this year.
