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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Oct 22
22 Oct 2006 19:26:40 GMT
Source: Reuters
•  Iraq in turmoil

Oct 22 (Reuters) - Following are security and other developments in Iraq as of 1910 GMT on Sunday:

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* BAQUBA - A bomb blast and an ambush by gunmen on a convoy of buses near Baquba killed 13 police recruits and several more recruits were kidnapped, a local official said. Another 25 recruits were wounded in the ambush on the buses which were taking the recruits to Baghdad from a base attacked by insurgents using mortars and rifle fire on Saturday. There were 80 casualties, including many dead, from Saturday's attack, the official said.

* BAGHDAD - The Interior Ministry said 50 bodies had been found in Baghdad over the past 24 hours.

* MOSUL - Three bodies were found in Mosul, a hospital source said.

SALAHEDDIN PROVINCE - A U.S. soldier was killed and three more wounded as a result of enemy action in Salaheddin Province, the military said.

ANBAR PROVINCE - A U.S. Marine was killed in combat in western Anbar province on Saturday, the U.S. military said on Sunday, bringing to 79 the number of U.S. military deaths in October, the deadliest for American troops this year.

BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber killed six people and wounded 20 on Palestine Street in central Baghdad, police said.

HADITHA - Four people were killed and five wounded in clashes between U.S. forces and gunmen in Haditha, west of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A bomb under a vehicle killed three people and wounded six in a market in Al Rashid street in central Baghdad, police said.

MAHMUDIYA - Gunmen killed a man police said was responsible for bicycle bomb and mortar attacks on Saturday that killed 16 and wounded 60 in a market in Mahmudiya, a town in the Sunni insurgent "Triangle of Death" south of Baghdad.

MADAEN - Sunni and Shi'ite tribes clashed between Madaen and Suwayra, south of Baghdad, on Saturday, police said. On the Shi'ite side, six people were killed and three wounded, and three Sunnis were also killed, police said.

KUT - Interfax-Ukraine said a blast killed a Ukrainian and wounded another on Friday, 45 km (30 miles) west of Kut in southern Iraq. They were working as contractors for a British firm. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry was unavailable to confirm the report.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed two street cleaners in the western Baghdad district of Yarmuk, an Interior Ministry source said.

MOSUL - Two bodies were found with gunshot wounds in Mosul, one of them a police officer, a hospital source said.

NEAR MAHAWEEL - A roadside bomb near Mahaweel, 75 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, killed a civilian whose car was hit by the blast, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a barber in Amil, in southern Baghdad, police said.

KUT - Gunmen killed a former member of the Baath Party in Kut, 170 km (105 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two blasts wounded several people in eastern Baghdad. Police said four were wounded and attributed the blasts to a car bomb and a roadside bomb. An Interior Ministry source said 14 were wounded and said it was a car bomb and a mortar.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen kidnapped two Shi'ite tribal leaders as they were driving into Baghdad from the south, police said, adding their families had received a ransom demand for $500,000.

BAGHDAD - The Defence Ministry said 29 suspected insurgents had been arrested around Iraq in the past 24 hours.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb in eastern Baghdad wounded a civilian, police said.


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