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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Aug 21
21 Aug 2009 17:13:34 GMT
Source: Reuters
Aug 21 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1700 GMT on Friday.

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*MOSUL - A car bomb targeting an army patrol in a village 100 km (62 miles) northwest of Mosul killed four soldiers, including two officers, and wounded one, police said.

BAGHDAD - A bomb attached to a vehicle exploded in a vegetable market, killing two people and wounding 20 others in the south Baghdad district of Doura, police said.

MOSUL - The body of a member of the Kurdish Peshmerga security forces was found in west Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said, after he was kidnapped a day earlier. The body bore bullet wounds.

BABEL - A series of bombs and suspected mortar rounds in the southern Iraqi province of Babel killed seven people and wounded 55 on Thursday, police said.


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