FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Sept 29
Source: Reuters
Sept 29 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1100 GMT on Saturday. * denotes new or updated items. * SAMARRA - Bodies of eight suspected militants with gunshot wounds delivered by Iraqi special forces to the main hospital in Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. * HAMDANIYA - Car bomb targeting police patrol killed at least four policemen and wounded 16 civilians in Hamdaniya, 30 km (20 miles) east of the northern city of Mosul, police said. BAGHDAD - Iraqi army and gunmen clashed in Amin square in central Baghdad wounding four civilians, police said. MOSUL - Gunmen shot the imam of a mosque outside his house in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. HAWIJA - Hawija police chief's assistant died from wounds after roadside bomb targeted his patrol in Hawija, 70 km (43 miles) southwest of Kirkuk city, police said. BAGHDAD - U.S. military said air strike in Doura district of southern Baghdad on Thursday evening targeted men firing mortars. It estimated two to three people were killed or wounded. A senior health official in central Baghdad said the attack killed seven men and wounded six. BAGHDAD - Five bodies were found in different districts of Baghdad on Friday, police said. DIWANIYA - A body was found with gunshot wounds on Friday in southern Diwaniya, 180 km (112 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. JURF AL-SAKHAR - Al Qaeda militants attacked Sunni Arab tribes working with U.S. forces on Friday in Jurf al-Sakhar, 85 km (53 miles) south of Baghdad, wounding six, police said. NEAR HILLA - Gunmen shot a member of the disbanded Ba'ath party on Friday south of Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. HILLA - Gunmen killed a man in southern Hilla on Friday, police said. JBELA - Policemen defused several bombs in hand-held torches after one detonated wounding four people in Jbela, 65 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. MOSUL - A mortar bomb killed a local journalist on Friday in western Mosul, police said. BAGHDAD - Iraqi and U.S. forces detained suspected al Qaeda in Iraq cell leader and destroyed a large weapons cache during operations on Wednesday and Friday in central Iraq. The cell leader was believed to be responsible for assassinations and engaging in firefights in the Baghdad area of Ghazaliya.
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