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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Nov 24
24 Nov 2006 12:28:24 GMT
Source: Reuters
•  Iraq in turmoil

Nov 24 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1215 GMT on Friday.

BAGHDAD - The death toll in Thursday's multiple car bombings in Sadr City, a Shi'ite slum district of Baghdad, rose to 202 after around 40 of the wounded died overnight, police said. Another 250 were wounded and Baghdad was under a curfew.

TAL AFAR - A double suicide attack killed 22 people at a market in the northern city of Tal Afar, near the Syrian border, police said.

BAQUBA - Gunmen blew up an office of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's movement in the town of Baquba, north of Baghdad, after U.S. troops raided the building to arrest Sadr supporters inside, police said. They also reported sporadic clashes and said the situation was tense in the religiously mixed town which has been a frequent scene of sectarian violence.

BAGHDAD - Residents in Shula, a Shi'ite enclave in the mainly Sunni west Baghdad, reported at least two mortars hit the neighbourhood.


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