Baghdad, Nov 11, SPA -- Four people were wounded and four killed, one ofwhom in a US airstrike on residential buildings, in a fresh spate ofviolence in Iraq on Sunday, DPA quoted security sources and eyewitnesses as saying. US airstrikes launched overnight on residential buildings indistricts of Diwaniyah, 280 kilometres south of Baghdad, left acivilian dead and two wounded and damaged buildings, eyewitnessessaid. The air raids targeted members of the Shiite al-Mahdi Army in thedistricts of al-Sadr and al-Nahda in the predominantly Shiite city ofDiwaniyah. In the city of Baquba, a US-Iraqi army patrol was struck by abomb that caused two fatalities, security sources said. Two othermembers of the patrol were wounded. The Iraqi army backed by US forces launched a series of offensivesto seek out members of al-Qaeda in villages near Baqubah, 60kilometres north-east of Baghdad, according to the sources.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/498749