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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Nov 14
14 Nov 2006 18:15:18 GMT
Source: Reuters
•  Iraq in turmoil

Nov 14 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1750 GMT on Tuesday:

Asterisk denotes a new or updated item.

* RAMADI - Iraqi medical officials said at least 30 people were killed in violence overnight in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Ramadi in what police described as a U.S. military raid. The U.S. military said 11 insurgents were killed in three separate incidents and it had no reports of civilian casualties.

* TIKRIT - A suicide bomber blew himself up in Tikrit, wounding three policemen and three civilians, according to the Joint Coordination Centre for Iraqi and U.S. security forces.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb in Sadr City, a Shi'ite district in eastern Baghdad, killed two people and wounded 21, police said, but an interior ministry source said only one was killed.

DIYALA - Residents in Diyala province said a U.S. airstrike killed six members of a family in the village of Zor Albu Hishma. The U.S. military said it would look into the report.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen wearing Iraqi police commando uniforms kidnapped as many as 100 men from a Higher Education Ministry building in central Baghdad, the minister said. A government spokesman later said there were 50 hostages at most, and 20 of those initially taken had been released.

BAQUBA - Iraqi police, backed by U.S. forces, discovered the bodies of 10 kidnap victims, bound, blindfolded and with gunshot wounds, inside a house in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, Interior Ministry sources said. They arrived at the house after a shooting involving gunmen and police acting on a tip from neighbours.

BAGHDAD - Mortars killed four people and wounded six in al-Zuhur, in Baghdad's northern outskirts.

BAGHDAD - A bomb inside a bus station in eastern Baghdad killed two people and wounded 10, Interior Ministry sources said.

TIKRIT - A car bomb in downtown Tikrit, Saddam Hussein's home town, wounded 10 people, including three policemen, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb ripped through a crowded market area in Rasheed Street in central Baghdad, killing 10 people and wounding 25, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a security guard for former Prime Minister Iyad Allawi on his way home in the western Ghazaliya district of Baghdad, Allawi's Iraqi National List said.

KIRKUK - Gunmen killed a man in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Police found 11 bodies with gunshot wounds on Tuesday in the city of Mosul, north of Baghdad, police said.

BAQUBA - Gunmen attacked a police patrol killing three policemen and wounding another in the religiously mixed city of Baquba, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb wounded three people in the northwestern Hurriya district of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi army killed three insurgents and arrested 72 suspected insurgents during the last 24 hours in different parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said in a statement.

BAGHDAD - Chanting slogans in support of a radical, anti-American Shi'ite cleric, mourners carried coffins through a Baghdad district where Iraqi officials said U.S. forces killed six people in an overnight raid. The U.S. military declined to confirm any operation in Shula.

YUSUFIYA - U.S. forces conducted an air strike on Monday in the town of Yusufiya, 15 km (9 miles) south of Baghdad, killing three insurgents, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.


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