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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, July 6
06 Jul 2007 20:54:20 GMT
Source: Reuters
July 6 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 2030 GMT on Friday:

* Indicates a new or updated item:

* BAGHDAD - A mortar killed seven members of the same family in central Baghdad on Friday as they slept on their roof, an Interior Ministry source said.

* RAMADI - A Saudi man was detained while trying to carry out a suicide bomb attack in a truck carrying canisters of chloride in the western Sunni city of Ramadi on Friday, police said.

* BAGHDAD - Five bodies were found abandoned in different parts of the city on Friday, police said.

* BAGHDAD - Two civilians were wounded by a mortar attack in the central Baghdad district of Karradat Mariam, police said.

* BAGHDAD - One person was killed by a roadside bomb in the southern Baghdad neighbourhood of Zufaraniya and two were wounded, police said.

* MOSUL - An Iraqi police lieutenant was killed and another officer wounded when a hand grenade was thrown at their car in the restive northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

SAMAWA - A fourth person has been killed in clashes since Thursday in the southern city of Samawa between the Iraqi army and militiamen loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, a morgue source said. An eyewitness said sporadic fighting continued.

SAMAWA - Four Iraqi policemen killed and three civilians wounded by a roadside bomb in Samawa, police said.

HAWIJA - One Iraqi soldier killed in Hawija, 60 km (40 miles) outside the northern city of Kirkuk, police said.

KIRKUK - Three Iraqi police wounded in a drive-by shooting in central Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad.

KIRKUK - A man and a woman wounded when Iraqi army fired shots to clear traffic in central Kirkuk, police said.

BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier died of wounds received in combat operations in western Baghdad on Thursday, the military said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed 17 people and wounded 25 others outside a restaurant in a Shi'ite neighbourhood in southern Baghdad on Thursday evening, police said.

HILLA - A roadside bomb killed four Iraqi soldiers in the southern Shi'ite city of Hilla on Thursday, police said.

YUSUFIYA - One Iraqi army soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in Yusufiya, 15 km (9 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

MAHMUDIYA - Two bodies were found in Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of the capital, police said. They had been tortured and shot.

BAGHDAD - Police found 24 bodies in Baghdad on Thursday, mostly victims of roving sectarian death squads. Most had been shot dead.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a police commander from the Facilities Protection Service who was responsible for protection of electricity infrastructure in southern Baghdad, police said. The commander was killed in the town of Salman Pak near Baghdad on Thursday.


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