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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, June 22
22 Jun 2008 13:49:24 GMT
Source: Reuters
June 22 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1330 GMT on Sunday:

* denotes new or updated items:

BAQUBA - At least 15 people were killed and 35 wounded when a female suicide bomber blew herself up among policemen having lunch in the city of Baquba, north of Baghdad, police and hospital sources said.

* BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army detained 65 wanted men and confiscated weapons during an operation on Saturday in Dhi-Qar province in the country's south, the Defence Ministry said.

NEAR KIRKUK - A roadside bomb killed three people, two of them women, and wounded two others when it struck their car just outside Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two bodies were found bearing gunshot wounds on Saturday in different districts of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed one policeman and wounded another in a drive-by shooting at checkpoint on Saturday in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

HILLA - A bomb concealed inside a bag wounded two people inside a market place in central Hilla, 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

AWJA - Police arrested three Iraqis and an Egyptian man on suspicion of being involved in the assassination of the head of Saddam Hussein's tribe, Sheikh Ali al-Neda, on June 10, police said. Neda was killed by a bomb planted under his vehicle in Awja, 150 km (95 miles) north of Baghdad.

(Compiled by Aws Qusay; Editing by Dean Yates)


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