Security incidents in Iraq, July 12

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* BAGHDAD - Gunmen stormed the offices of a construction company in western Baghdad, killing four people and wounding one, police said. The manager of the firm and the director of a human rights charity were among the dead.

KIRKUK - Three civilians were killed and 15 wounded when a suicide car bomber blew up in a crowded street after a U.S. military convoy had passed by in the northern oil city of Kirkuk, police said. There were no U.S. casualties in the bombing.

BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier died of wounds sustained on Monday after the vehicle he was in hit a land mine in the Iraqi capital, a U.S. military statement said. Roadside bombs are one of the most deadly weapons used against U.S. military forces. * BAGHDAD - An Interior Ministry official was gunned down by insurgents in central Baghdad, police said. Colonel Amr Mozer was an official at the major crimes investigations unit. Mozer's driver was wounded in the attack. Police said a captain in their force was shot dead in a separate attack.

MUSAYYIB - The headless body of a man was found in Musayyib on Monday morning, police said. The town is located south of Baghdad in what U.S. forces have called the Triangle of Death, where Shi'ite and Sunni populations are mingled.