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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, March 29
29 Mar 2007 07:10:47 GMT
Source: Reuters
•  Iraq in turmoil

March 29 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 0700 GMT on Thursday:

BAGHDAD - Two policemen were killed and six wounded when they approached a car bomb in Amil district in southwestern Baghdad, police said. There was a corpse in the car.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen attacked the motorcade of the head of traffic police, Jaafar al-Khafaji, in northern Baghdad, killing two traffic policemen and wounding two others, police said.

BAGHDAD - The bodies of 13 people were found shot in different districts of Baghdad on Wednesday, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb targeting an Iraqi army checkpoint killed a soldier and wounded three others on Wednesday near al-Shurta tunnel in western Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - Ali Abid, the deputy to the governor of Kirkuk, escaped a roadside bomb attack on Wednesday in the northern city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. He was unharmed but three of his guards were wounded.

DIWANIYA - Gunmen killed a policeman near his house in the southern city of Diwaniya, 180 km (110 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

DIWANIYA - The body of a young man was found shot in Diwaniya, police said. He was kidnapped on Wednesday.

DIWANIYA - Gunmen kidnapped a woman engineer when she went out of her office on Wednesday in Diwaniya, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen kidnapped Hassan Abdul-Lateef, an official of the Iraqi Customs Office in central Baghdad on Wednesday, police said.

HILLA - Iraqi army forces arrested 14 insurgents and a number of weapons and secure bomb-making materials in and around the city Hilla, 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, on Tuesday, the U.S. military said.

FALLUJA - The U.S. military said that only one of two truck bombs that attacked Iraqi and U.S. forces in Falluja on Wednesday contained chlorine, contrary to earlier information that both bombs released chlorine gas.


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