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Two suspects were shot and killed by residents of a home during an attempted home invasion in Waukegan Tuesday morning, police said. The 911 caller, who was an occupant of the single-family home, told dispatchers that at least one of the two suspects had a gun Officers arrived and found two males lying in the front yard with gunshot wounds.

Two killed while planting bomb under northern Iraq bridge Agence France-PresseKirkuk, March 18 Two people were killed while trying to plant a bomb under a bridge over the Zab river near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Thursday, police said."The bodies of two people wearing traditional Arabic clothes and explosive charges were found at the scene," police officer Karim Ali Jabburi said."The bodies are mutilated, so it is difficult to identify them," he said.Jabburi said the bridge was on the main road linking Kirkuk to the northern city of Mosul.The road is used frequently by civilians, US troops and trucks...