31人在伊拉克袭击中丧生

 　　BAGHDAD, May 14 (Xinhua) -- A total of 31 people were killed and 22 others injured in separate bombings and shootings across Iraq, police and medical sources said on Wednesday.

　　In Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, gunmen attacked an outpost for a police commando force late on Tuesday night in Udheim area, some 60 km north of the provincial¹ capital city of Baquba, leaving eight commandos killed, a provincial police source said.

　　Also in the province, security forces carried out a pre-dawn offensive on a camp believed to be used by militants² linked to the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL), an al-Qaida breakaway group in Iraq, in Himreen area in northeast Baquba, some 65 km northeast of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, the source said.

　　During the offensive, at least four ISIL gunmen were killed and a cache of weapons and explosives seized, the source added.

　　In Salahudin province, gunmen attacked a police patrol early in the morning in the town of Yathrib, some 80 km north of Baghdad, killing³ two police personnel and wounded three passers-by, a provincial police source said.

　　Also in Salahudin, two police were killed in a roadside bomb attack on their patrol in central Tikrit, the provincial capital city, some 170 km north of Baghdad, the source said, adding that two more policemen were wounded in another roadside bomb attack in the city.

　　In Anbar province, government forces killed seven suspected ISIL gunmen in the town of Saqlawiyah, just north of the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, a provincial police source said.

　　Meanwhile, seven people were killed and nine wounded by artillery⁴ and mortar⁵ shelling on several neighborhoods in militant- seized city of Fallujah, a medical source from the city hospital said.

　　In a separate incident, a suicide bomber⁶ blew up an explosive- laden⁷ car at a police station in the city of Heet, some 160 km west of Baghdad, wounding four policemen, the source added.

　　Near Baghdad, police found the body of a young man with a bullet wound in the head in Abu Ghraib area, some 25 km west of the capital, while four civilians⁹ were wounded in a roadside bomb blast near their car in the same area, a local police source said.

　　Iraq is witnessing some of its worst violence in recent years. According to the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, a total of 8,868 Iraqis, including 7,818 civilians and civilian⁸ police personnel, were killed in 2013, the highest annual death toll¹⁰ in years.（本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑）

1 provincial   

adj.省的，地方的；n．外省人，乡下人

参考例句：

• City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
• Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。

2 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

3 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

4 artillery   

n.(军)火炮，大炮；炮兵(部队)

参考例句：

• This is a heavy artillery piece.这是一门重炮。
• The artillery has more firepower than the infantry.炮兵火力比步兵大。

5 mortar   

n.灰浆，灰泥；迫击炮；v.把…用灰浆涂接合

参考例句：

• The mason flushed the joint with mortar.泥工用灰浆把接缝处嵌平。
• The sound of mortar fire seemed to be closing in.迫击炮的吼声似乎正在逼近。

6 bomber   

n.轰炸机，投弹手，投掷炸弹者

参考例句：

• He flew a bomber during the war.他在战时驾驶轰炸机。
• Detectives hunting the London bombers will be keen to interview him.追查伦敦爆炸案凶犯的侦探们急于对他进行讯问。

7 laden   

adj.装满了的；充满了的；负了重担的；苦恼的

参考例句：

• He is laden with heavy responsibility.他肩负重任。
• Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。

8 civilian   

adj.平民的，民用的，民众的

参考例句：

• There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
• He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。

9 civilians   

平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )； 老百姓

参考例句：

• the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
• At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。

10 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。