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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 21
21 Apr 2007 17:12:34 GMT
Source: Reuters
April 21 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1700 GMT on Saturday:

* denotes new or updated items

* FALLUJA - Gunmen shot the head of the Falluja municipal council, Sami al-Jibouri, in central Falluja, police said.

MUSSAYAB - Mussayab Mayor Mehdi Abdul Hussein al-Najem and two of his bodyguards were killed in an ambush, police said. A roadside bomb exploded next to their vehicles in the attack at Mussayab, 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, and gunmen then opened fire.

BAGHDAD - One soldier was killed and two wounded when they were hit by a roadside bomb during a patrol southwest of Baghdad, the U.S. military said

KHALIS - Eight bodies were found in Khalis, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, a police source said. All showed signs of torture and four had been beheaded.

BAGHDAD - A bomb planted in a minibus in Baghdad's Shi'ite stronghold of Sadr City killed two people and wounded five others, police said. Another bus next to it was also hit by the blast.

KIRKUK - Gunmen stormed a house and killed four members of the same family -- a wife, husband and their two children -- in the city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad.

DIWANIYA - One Polish soldier was killed and four more were wounded in a roadside bomb attack near Diwaniya, 180 km (112 miles) south of Baghdad, on Friday, Poland's Ministry of Defence said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb attack on a U.S. military patrol wounded two soldiers at Baladiat, east of Baghdad, Iraqi police said.

MUSSAYAB - An Iraqi civilian was found shot dead in Mussayab, police said.


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