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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 11
11 Apr 2007 08:48:39 GMT
Source: Reuters
April 11 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 0830 GMT on Wednesday:

BAGHDAD - Police said they found the bodies of nine people shot on Tuesday in different districts of Baghdad.

KUT - Gunmen killed two policemen outside their homes in two separate incidents in Kut, 170 km (100 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed Abdul Abbas Hashim, a general director in the Electricity Ministry, along with his driver in a drive-by shooting in northern Baghdad, police and the Electricity Ministry said.

HILLA - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed a policeman and wounded three others in the Shi'ite city of Hilla, 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed an insurgent, detained 13 others and destroyed several weapons caches during a five-day operation in the Arab Jibour area of southern Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - Two mortar rounds landed in two districts in southern and eastern Baghdad, killing one person and wounded four others on Tuesday, police said.


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