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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, June 26
26 Jun 2009 11:53:05 GMT
Source: Reuters
June 26 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1145 GMT on Friday.

* denotes a new or updated item.

* MOSUL - A roadside bomb killed an Iraqi soldier and wounded two others when it struck their convoy in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - Iraqi security forces captured two militants carrying three suicide bomb vests in Abu Ghraib town, west of Baghdad, security source said.

BAGHDAD - A bomb in a motorbike market killed at least 13 people and wounded 45 in central Baghdad, police said.

DIWANIYA - A gunman opened fire on an aide to the Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Thursday near his house in Diwaniya, 150 km (95 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - A bomb planted in a parked car killed one Iraqi soldier on Thursday, wounding four policemen and nine civilians in northern Mosul, police said.

MOSUL - Iraqi soldiers killed a militant attempting to plant a roadside bomb in eastern Mosul on Thursday, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen wearing military uniforms attacked a convoy carrying a senior criminal judge in Mosul on Thursday, wounding one of his bodyguards, police said. The judge was not hurt.

BAGHDAD - A mortar round wounded four civilians when it landed in Baghdad's central Karrada district on Thursday night, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded two civilians in Baghdad's eastern Ur district on Thursday, police said.


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