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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Sept 13
13 Sep 2008 20:13:59 GMT
Source: Reuters
Sept 13 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 2000 GMT on Saturday.

* denotes new or updated item:

* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed the local leader of a U.S.-backed Sunni Arab neighbourhood patrol in western Baghdad's Furat district, police said. The blast wounded two of his family and two neighbours.

* MOSUL - Gunmen kidnapped and shot dead four staff from Iraq's Sharqia TV station in the city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, the station and police said. Police arrested five men on suspicion of carrying out the attack.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb at a checkpoint in Baghdad's Karrada district killed four security personnel, three of them policemen and one a U.S.-backed neighbourhood guard, police said.

NEAR KHANAQIN - A roadside bomb killed four members of a Kurdish security patrol and wounded two others south of Khanaqin, 140 km (100 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen stormed a house and killed a man and his wife in eastern Mosul, police said.

DUJAIL - A car bomb killed 30 people and wounded 47 others outside a police station on Friday in the town of Dujail, 50 km (30 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - Gunmen killed a real estate broker in a drive-by shooting in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded four policemen when it hit their patrol in the district of Doura in southern Baghdad, police said.

SULAIMAN PEK - A roadside bomb wounded the head of the Sulaiman Pek district and two of his guards in Sulaiman Pek, 160 km (100 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

(Compiled by Aws Qusay)


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