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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Oct 16
16 Oct 2007 15:16:02 GMT
Source: Reuters
Oct 16 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1500 GMT on Tuesday.

* denotes new or updated items.

* MOSUL - A suicide truck bomb targeting a police station killed four policemen, a woman and wounded 80 people in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb targeting an army patrol on Sa'adoun Street in central Baghdad killed three soldiers and three civilians. Five soldiers and 20 civilians were wounded in the attack, police said.

NEAR FALLUJA - Gunmen killed tribal leader Sheikh Saleh Fezea Shneitar along with his son and nephew in a village just west of Baghdad, police said. The tribal leader was a member of the Sunni Arab "Anbar Awakenings Council" fighting al Qaeda in the western province of Anbar.

* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb in the central Baghdad district of Karrada killed one civilian and wounded two, police said.

BAGHDAD - Six mortar rounds killed one civilian and wounded 13 in the southern Doura district of Baghdad on Monday evening, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen attacked a police checkpoint, killing three policemen and wounding two others in Zayouna district in eastern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Five bodies were found on Monday in different districts in Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - A body with gunshot wounds and signs of torture was found in northern Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* ABBASI - Police said they had found a decapitated body in the town of Abbasi, 70 km (45 miles) southwest of Kirkuk.

* ABBASI - A roadside bomb killed two militants as they tried to plant the device in Abbasi, police said.

* KIRKUK - A roadside bomb wounded two truck drivers in northern Kirkuk, police said.


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