FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Oct 25
Source: Reuters
Oct 25 (Reuters) - Following are security and other developments in Iraq as of 1900 GMT on Wednesday: Asterisk denotes a new or updated item. *DIWANIYA - Gunmen killed Iraqi soldier Hussein al-Khalidi outside his home in the Shi'ite city of Diwaniya, 180 km (115 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. His son was wounded. *DIWANIYA - Gunmen attacked a police checkpoint in Diwaniya, wounding two officers, police said. BAQUBA - A suicide car bomber killed two police officers and wounded two civilians at a checkpoint in the town of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles), north of Baghdad, police said. HUSAYBA - Two people were killed and two injured when a vehicle exploded on Tuesday in a market place in Husayba, a town on Iraq's border with Syria, the U.S. military said. TAL AFAR - A bomb killed three Iraqi soldiers and wounded three others as they entered a house in the northern town of Tal Afar, 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol wounded two policemen in the Christian neighbourhood of Camp Sara in Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. DIWANIYA - A grenade thrown at a house wounded four people in the southern city of Diwaniya, 180 km (112 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. DIWANIYA - Gunmen wounded a policeman in Diwaniya, police said. MAHMUDIYA - The bodies of four people, bound and gagged, were found in the town of Mahmudiya, in an area known as the Triangle of Death south of Baghdad, police said. YUSUFIYA - A mortar round killed a man and wounded three in Yusufiya, 15 km (9 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - A raid backed by U.S. air strikes killed four people and wounded 20 in Shi'ite Sadr City district of Baghdad, the government said, in an operation the U.S. military said was targeted at a death squad commander. BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed 12 people they said were insurgents preparing to plant a roadside bomb in the western city of Ramadi, the U.S. military said on Wednesday. It said the suspected insurgents were travelling in a car that was destroyed on Tuesday with "precision munitions".
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