Iraq Watch: April 17, 2007

Rundown of Violence

Anbar Province

_ 17 bodies were found in an abandoned schoolyard in the provincial capital of Ramadi.

Baghdad Province

_ The executed bodies of at least 25 people were found across Baghdad Tuesday.

Nineveh Province

_ Mosul's deputy chief of police was assassinated along with two members of his security detail Tuesday in the northern city.

_ Also in Mosul, authorities discovered nine bodies in various parts of the town.

Tamim Province

_ A car bomb detonated next to a passing police patrol in Hawija killing at least three Iraqis. Four others were wounded in the bombing.

Wasit Province

_ Three corpses were fished out of the Tigris River Tuesday near the city of Suwayrah. One of the bodies had been beheaded.

Sources: AP, Reuters