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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, March 8
08 Mar 2009 09:31:36 GMT
Source: Reuters
March 8 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 0930 GMT on Sunday.

BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt and driving a motor bike loaded with explosives killed 28 people and wounded 57 as recruits gathered at a police academy in central Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Three members of a U.S. backed neighborhood patrol were wounded by a roadside bomb in the Ghazaliya district of western Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A bomb attached to a vehicle carrying an employee of Iraq's parliament wounded him and a bystander in Mansour district, western Baghdad, police said.


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