FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Nov 21
Source: Reuters
Nov 21 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1430 GMT on Tuesday: Asterisk denotes new or updated item. *BAGHDAD - A small explosion in another vehicle damaged the car of Iraqi parliament speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani outside the parliament building, though the official was not aboard, a parliamentary source said. U.S. explosives experts destroyed further suspicious objects in controlled explosions, a U.S. military spokesman said. No one was injured. *HIBHIB - Gunmen killed Ali al-Shimari, the mayor of the town of Hibhib, near Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, and wounded four of his guards, police said. U.S. troops killed al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Hibhib in June. MOSUL - Gunmen killed an off-duty police officer in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - At least three people were killed and 11 wounded in a U.S. raid in Baghdad's Sadr City district, an Interior Ministry source said. Health Ministry spokesman, Qassem Abdul Hadi, said the dead included a six-month-old infant, while up to 50 had been wounded and were being treated at the local Imam Ali Hospital. Other Iraqi officials put the number of wounded at 15. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol wounded nine people, including two policemen, in the eastern Camp Sara district of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. BAGHDAD - A car bomb targeting a police patrol killed a civilian and wounded six others, including two policemen, an Interior Ministry source said. HAWIJA - Gunmen killed a policeman on his way to work in the town of Hawija, 70 km (43 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said. TIKRIT - The bodies of 40 unclaimed people were buried in Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, a hospital source said.
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