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5 soldiers killed; blast wounds 3; 2 dead, 7 injured in Sadr City

(3 Aug 2010) SHOTLIST Baghdad's Mansour neighbourhood 1. Wide of the road leading to al-Liqa Square where gunmen attacked a military checkpoint killing five soldiers 2. Various of military vehicle, traffic on road 3. Various of damaged kerb 4. Close up of rubble 5. Wide of Iraqi military vehicle at the site Baghdad's Hurriyah neighbourhood 6. Wide of trees, smoke rising from scene where a bomb attached to a police major's car exploded, wounding three 7. Pan from trees to smoke rising from the blast site 8. Various of the victim's damaged car 9. Various of damage to interior of car 10. Rear view of car 11. Wide of street Baghdad's Sadr city 12. Wide of military vehicles blocking road leading to the blast site 13. Concrete walls at the blast site 14. Close up of damaged concrete wall 15. Pool of blood on ground and traffic on road 16. Close up of pool of blood at the site and bullets covered with blood 17. Children looking at blood 18. Low angle of cars driving by blast site 19. Ambulance driving towards hospital AUDIO: siren 20. Wide of the blast site STORYLINE Violence escalated in Baghdad on Tuesday, where a series of blasts went off in different areas of the city, killing up to seven people and wounding at least ten others, according to officials. Suspected al-Qaida militants killed 5 Iraqi soldiers in a brazen dawn attack on Tuesday at a western Baghdad checkpoint and planted the militant group's black banner before fleeing the scene, officials also said. Police and hospital officials said the attackers arrived in three cars and used pistols fitted with silencers in the assault, in the mainly Sunni Mansour district. Security forces subsequently sealed off the area and were searching for the attackers, the officials said. Tuesday's attack was similar to one last Thursday in Baghdad's Sunni Azamiyah district, a former al-Qaida stronghold, where suspected militants from the network stormed a checkpoint, killing 16 members of the security forces and briefly planting their banner nearby before fleeing. The attacks in Azamiyah and Mansour were likely to raise concerns that insurgents are successfully taking advantage of the enduring political vacuum nearly five months after Iraq's parliamentary elections failed to produce a clear winner. Politicians are still arguing over the formation of a new government, with the main hurdle being who should become the next prime minister. Also on Tuesday, an Iraqi soldier and a policeman were killed and nine people were wounded in other attacks across Baghdad. According to police officials, a roadside bomb targeting an army patrol in Baghdad's Shiite district of Sadr City killed one soldier and wounded seven - four soldiers and three bystanders. In the capital's eastern Ghadir district, a traffic policeman was killed when a bomb attached to his motorbike went off. A similar bomb attached to the car of a police major went off in Hurriyah neighbourhood, seriously wounding him. And in the nearby Ghazaliyah neighbourhood, gunmen in a speeding car opened fire on a police checkpoint, wounding one policeman, police officials said. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to share the information with the media. Violence levels have significantly dropped in Iraq since 2008 but attacks still occur daily, particularly in Baghdad, where al-Qaida appears determined to show it is far from being a spent force despite the killing and capture of hundreds of its members and leaders by Iraqi and US forces. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...