Baqouba, Iraq, March 7, SPA -- Insurgents launched a series ofapparently coordinated attacks in and around this citynorth of the Iraqi capital on Monday, killing at least 12people and wounding 26 others, police and medical officialssaid. Police Col. Mudhafar al-Jubbori said the assaults includeda car bomb, three roadside bombs and small arms attacks onone checkpoint in the city and two checkpoints just southof Baqouba in Muradiyah. Baqouba is located about 60kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad. The attacks killed seven soldiers and five police, andwounded 26 others including one civilian caught in thecrossfire, said Tariq Ibrahim, a medic at Baqouba's mainhospital. A spokesman for the U.S. 42nd Infantry Division, Maj.Richard Goldenberg, said guerrillas fired a mortar aroundinto the center of Baqouba near the blue-domed governor'soffice. There were no casualties in that attack, but Goldenbergsaid Iraqi police came under small arms fire shortlyafterward on a highway south of the city. "Coalition forces are responding to the mortar attack,"he said. Goldenberg said the car bomb exploded just south of thecity. --SPA1136 Local Time 0836 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/244727