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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Nov 4
04 Nov 2007 19:12:39 GMT
Source: Reuters
Nov 4 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1800 GMT on Sunday.

* denotes new or updated items.

* NEAR BAGHDAD - An Iranian pilgrim was killed near Baghdad on Saturday. "A man sitting near a passenger bus was accidentally shot dead and a woman was slightly wounded," an Iranian official told ISNA news agency in Tehran.

TIKRIT - A car bomb killed three people, including a child, and wounded 13 others in Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. A police source in Baghdad put the death toll at five.

GARMA - Neighbourhood police units in western Anbar province arrested 30 gunmen and found three decomposed bodies in Garma, 20 km (12 miles) northeast of Falluja, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded two people in Karrada Mariam district in central Baghdad, police said.

BAB SINJAR - Seventeen people were wounded in separate incidents by suicide bombers driving a truck and a car in northwestern Bab Sinjar, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a woman principal at al Mustakbal primary school and wounded a woman principal at Um Qassir school, both in the southern Baghdad district of Saidiya, police said.

BAGHDAD - An adviser in Iraq's Finance Ministry, Qutaiba Bader-al-Din, was found shot dead in a vehicle along with another ministry employee in the western Baghdad district of Jamiaa, police said.

NEAR KUT - Gunmen on motorbikes killed a policeman on Saturday west of Kut, 170 km (105 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.

TIKRIT - Police found three bodies with gunshot wounds and signs of torture in southern Tikrit, police said. One of the dead was a police lieutenant-colonel.

NEAR HIBHIB - Three Iraqi soldiers were killed and two wounded in clashes with militants near Hibhib, just north of Baghdad, police said.

KUT - Gunmen kidnapped the wife of a police officer on Saturday in Kut. Police said it was not known why the woman was kidnapped.

SAMARRA - A parked car bomb targeting a police patrol on Saturday killed four people and wounded 11, including a number of policemen, in southern Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Four bodies were found around Baghdad on Saturday, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed one person and wounded four in the Mansour district of western Baghdad on Saturday, police said.

ABBASI - A decapitated body was found in the town of Abbasi, 60 km (40 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, on Saturday, police said.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi army backed by U.S. soldiers captured 12 suspected militants in an early morning raid on Saturday on the Sunni Abu Hanifa Mosque in the Adhamiyah district of northern Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
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A U.S. soldier stands guard during a patrol of a new village called Village 8 on the outskirts of Baghdad November 7, 2007. About 200 Shi'ite families have relocated in the new village in the southeast of Baghdad after they fled with thousands others from Balad Ruz, north of Iraq several months ago because of sectarian violence. Picture taken November 7, 2007. REUTERS/Erik de Castro (IRAQ)



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