June 24 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1900 GMT on Wednesday. * denotes new or updated item. * BAGHDAD - A bomb in a trailer attached to a motorcycle killed at least 61 civilians and wounded about 116 others at a market in eastern Baghdad's Sadr City slum, police said. MOSUL - Seven civilians were wounded when an armed man hurled a hand grenade at a U.S. military patrol in a market in central Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. KIRKUK - An insurgent was killed while he tried to plant a bomb on a roadside near Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. KIRKUK - A roadside bomb wounded three street cleaners as they emptied a garbage container in central Kirkuk, police said. MOSUL - A car bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol wounded one soldier in central Mosul, police said. MOSUL - A roadside bomb killed a policeman and wounded another on Wednesday when it exploded near their patrol in central Mosul, police said. MOSUL - Police in Mosul retrieved the body of a woman from the River Tigris on Wednesday with gunshot wounds to her head, police said. MOSUL - Gunmen killed an off-duty policeman on Wednesday during a drive-by shooting in southern Mosul, police said.
Iraq's Health Minister Saleh Al-Hasnawi speaks during a news conference in Baghdad June 24, 2009. Al-Hasnawi confirmed on Wednesday the country's first cases of the H1N1 flu virus, saying six members ...
