FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Nov 20
Source: Reuters
Nov 20 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1830 GMT on Monday: * indicates new or updated item. *KIRKUK - Gunmen in a car shot dead the director of administration at Kirkuk University's college of education, Hussein Qader, and wounded a colleague as they were coming out of a store in the south of the city, police said. BAGHDAD - Police found 60 bodies in various parts of Baghdad over the past 24 hours, an Interior Ministry source said. BAGHDAD - Gunmen attacked the convoy of an Iraqi deputy health minister, Hakim al-Zamily, killing two of his guards, but the minister was unhurt, Zamily told Reuters. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb hit the convoy of a junior minister, Mohammed al-Oreibi, an official in his party said. Nobody was hurt in the blast. MOSUL - Gunmen killed Ahmad al-Tai, the head of clinical science at the nursing college in Mosul University in northern Iraq, police said. TIKRIT - Police found eight bodies, including five people they said had been kidnapped on Sunday on the road from Dujail to Baghdad, police and a joint coordination center for Iraqi and U.S. forces said. ISHAQI - A police colonel and two of his brothers were killed by gunmen on Sunday in Ishaqi, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. NEAR BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed Ali al-Grari, a professor at Babil University in Hilla, in a drive-by shooting on the main road between Hilla and Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - The body of an Iraqi actor was found with three bullet wounds in the head in al-Yarmouk district in western Baghdad, police and al-Sharkiya channel said. Waleed Hassan was known for his popular sketch show "Caricature". RAMADI - A suicide car bomber exploded his vehicle near a police checkpoint and killed two people, including a policeman, and wounded six others, including four policemen, in Ramadi, police and hospital sources said. RAMADI - A mortar round landed near a court and wounded three people in Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, a hospital source said. NEAR MOSUL - A suicide car bomber rammed his car into a joint Iraqi police-army patrol and killed three soldiers and wounded four others, including a policeman, on Sunday in a town west of Mosul, police said. ISKANDARIYA - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed two civilians and wounded three others in the town of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb in a crowded food market killed three people and wounded five others in Jamila district in eastern Baghdad, police said. An Interior Ministry source put the death toll at two, with seven wounded. FALLUJA - A U.S. Marine died on Sunday from wounds suffered in combat in the western province of Anbar, the U.S. military said. BAGHDAD - Iraqi special forces backed by U.S. advisers raided a group suspected of kidnapping, torturing and murdering Iraqi civilians and soldiers, the U.S. military said. The raid was in Sadr City, a Shi'ite militia stronghold in Baghdad. The U.S. statement said Iraqi forces searched a mosque. No one was detained and there was "minimal damage" to the mosque, it said. NEAR BAGHDAD - The bodies of 14 people, with gunshot wounds and bearing signs of torture, were found dumped south of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. RAMADI - U.S. forces conducted an air strike and killed two suspected insurgents on Sunday in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, the U.S. military said in a statement. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol and wounded two civilians near a highway in central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. BAQUBA - Gunmen killed a police officer from the Facility Protection Services (FPS) along with his driver in the religiously mixed city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
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