The focus is Falluja but attacks continue throughout the country

raqi insurgents continued their attacks across the country yesterday, including a series of raids near the town of Baquba, north-east of Baghdad.

Insurgents claimed that 45 police officers were killed in the raids, but in Baquba, the official in charge of the main morgue denied it, saying he had not dealt with any dead from the attacks.

Elsewhere, a suicide car bomb exploded at an Iraqi national guard camp at the K-1 oil pumping station in Kirkuk, in the north, killing at least three people and injuring several others.

Hospital officials said 32 Iraqis were injured in the raids on the police stations in the towns of Burhiz and Mafrag, near Baquba, by groups armed with Kalashnikov rifles and rocket-propelled grenades at around 7am. A guarded bridge was also hit. At least one of the attackers was killed and the police stations were badly damaged.

An Islamist website warned Iraqis to stay at home today in Baghdad and other cities or they would be "putting their lives in danger." The statement, in the name of eight known militant groups, said the unified "Islamic resistance" would step up operations against the "American enemy" in retaliation for the US-led attack on Falluja.

A militant group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian extremist, claimed responsibility for the police station attacks.

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