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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 5
05 May 2008 13:04:49 GMT
Source: Reuters
May 5 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1300 GMT on Monday.

* denotes new or updated items:

* BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army killed six militants and detained 149 others in separate incidents across the country over the past 24 hours, the Defence Ministry said in a statement.

* MOSUL - Gunmen stormed an apartment and shot dead three women and wounded two others in northern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. soldiers killed nine militants during overnight operations in Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement.

BASRA - The Iranian Coast Guard shot dead two Iraqi fishermen and wounded another on Sunday in the Shatt al-Arab waterway in southern Iraq, police in the port city of Basra said. It was not clear why they had opened fire, but in previous incidents, the Coast Guard shot at fishermen who entered Iranian territorial waters, the police said.

BAGHDAD - Hospitals received six bodies, including three children, and 41 wounded people overnight in Baghdad's Sadr City, where Shi'ite militia fighters have been battling Iraqi security forces an U.S. troops, hospital sources said.

BAGHDAD - Three bodies were found in different districts across Baghdad, on Sunday, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded two soldiers on patrol on the northwestern outskirts of Baghdad on Sunday, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded three people, including two children, in eastern Baghdad's Zayouna district on Sunday, police said.

BAGHDAD - A mortar bomb wounded five people on Sunday in Ghadir district in eastern Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - A roadside bomb blast killed one policeman and wounded five others when it hit their patrol in central Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police and hospital sources said.

(Compiled by Aws Qusay, editing by Ross Colvin)


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