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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, March 16
16 Mar 2008 19:52:42 GMT
Source: Reuters
March 16 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1930 GMT on Sunday.

* denotes new or updated items.

* MOSUL - Police said they found a body of a child who was kidnapped by gunmen days before. They also discovered the decapitated bodies of a police officer and his driver in eastern Mosul.

* MOSUL - Gunmen killed an off-duty Iraqi policeman in front of his house in a drive-by shooting in northern Mosul, police said.

MOSUL - Eight people, including two policemen, were wounded in a suicide bomb attack on a Kurdistan Democratic Party office in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two bodies were found in different areas of Baghdad on Saturday, police said.

BAGHDAD - A parked car bomb killed one person and wounded two others in an attack on a convoy of vehicles in western Baghdad's Mansour district, police said.

HAWIJA - Two people were wounded by a bomb in a parked car in Hawija, 70 km (45 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.

MOSUL - Seven people were wounded when three mortar bombs landed on a residential area near an Iraqi army base in western Mosul, police said.

NUMANIYA - The body of an Iraqi contractor working with Georgian troops was found with gunshot wounds in Numaniya, 120 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - U.S. forces released 300 Iraqi detainees from Camp Future after determining they would not be a threat to Iraq's security, a U.S. military spokesman said.


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