Baghdad , Feb 19 , SPA --- At least 12 people were killed Tuesday, includingcivilians, and one wounded in separate attacks across Iraq, dpa quoted mediareports as saying. In Baquba, some 60 kilometres north of Baghdad, four members ofthe same family were shot and killed by militants while on their wayhome, the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency said. In a separate incident, five people were killed and a policemanwounded when an explosive device located in a taxi went off in theWaziriya district of northern Baghdad. The taxi driver and fourmembers of a family were killed in the blast near the Academy of FineArts. The policeman had been standing near the scene of the blast. Iraqi forces killed three militants, holding Arab nationalities,in the city of Samarra, some 125 kilometres north of Baghdad. Forcesalso detained a leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist network during aninspection operation launched in the early hours of Tuesday in theindustrial district in the same city. A weapon cache was also found. "Forces found 17 TNT explosives, 15 explosive devices, and 13mortar shells in addition to 19 kilograms of C4 explosives," thesources said.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/528453