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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Feb 11
11 Feb 2007 10:30:06 GMT
Source: Reuters
•  Iraq in turmoil

Feb 11 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1030 GMT on Sunday:

DOUR - A suicide truck bomber attacked a police station in the town of Dour near Tikrit, 175 km (105 miles) miles north of Baghdad, police said. A police major at the scene said 15 had been killed, but the deputy provincial governor said only five had died. Police at a hospital in Tikrit put the death toll at nine.

BAGHDAD - A total of 30 bodies were found in different parts of Baghdad on Saturday, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen shot dead eight men on Saturday when they ambushed their vehicle northwest of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, and raked it with machinegun fire, police said.

DIYALA PROVINCE - A U.S. soldier was shot and killed in combat operations in Diyala Province, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - One policeman was wounded when a suicide bomber exploded near a Shi'ite mosque in the Ilaam district in southern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed one man and wounded three others in Mansour district in western Baghdad, police said.

BAIJI - Gunmen killed Lieutenant Colonel Jamal Mohammad, the chief of serious crimes office in the oil refinery city of Baiji 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad and wounded two of his guards. Police said two of the attackers were also killed.

BUHRIZ - Clashes erupted between U.S. and Iraqi forces and gunmen on Saturday, killing five people and wounding 25 others, including three women, in the town of Buhriz, 60 km (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, a hospital source said.

MOSUL - Police found the bodies of five people, three policemen and two civilians, in different parts of Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed Hatam Abdul-Hussein, a colonel in Kerbala police headquarters, and wounded his son along with an aide on Saturday in the western Mansour district of Baghdad, police said.


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