FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Nov 22
Source: Reuters
Nov 22 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1630 GMT on Wednesday: Asterisk denotes new or updated item. *MOSUL - Police said they recovered 14 bodies, including three women in different areas of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad. KERBALA - Police found the body of police Major Basim Hasan al-Hasnawi with gunshot wounds to the head in central Kerbala, 110 km (68 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. He had been abducted by gunmen two days earlier. KERBALA - Tribal leader Ahmed al-Allawi was seriously wounded when gunmen opened fire on his car, police said. BAGHDAD - Two roadside bombs exploded in quick succession, wounding two policemen when they went to retrieve the bodies of three people in Haifa street in central Baghdad, police said. NEAR RAMADI - Police found the bodies of three people near Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, police said. FALLUJA - Gunmen killed a policeman in Falluja, 50 km (35 miles) west of Baghdad, police said. NEAR MUQDADIYA - A car bomb near an Iraqi army checkpoint and an attack by gunmen killed four people -- a university professor, a traffic police officer and two soldiers -- and wounded three civilians, near the town of Muqdadiya, 100 km (60 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said. ISKANDARIYA - A roadside bomb planted near members of the Facility Protection Services (FPS) killed seven and wounded another on Tuesday in Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. MOSUL - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol wounded three policemen in Mosul. MOSUL - Clashes between gunmen and police on Tuesday wounded six people, including three women, police said. LATIFIYA - U.S. forces arrested 45 suspected insurgents on Tuesday in Latifiya, in an area dubbed "the Triangle of Death" south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement. BAQUBA - Gunmen attacked a police patrol and killed three policemen in the religiously mixed city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. FALLUJA - U.S. Marines rescued two hostages and detained 13 suspected insurgents on Monday north of Falluja, 50 km (35 miles) west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement. OTHER DEVELOPMENTS: A U.N. report said 3,709 civilians were killed in October, a record high, and 3,345 were killed in September. The report said 418,392 people were displaced within Iraq due to sectarian violence since the February bombing of a Shi'ite shrine in Samarra. Nearly 100,000 more were fleeing to Syria and Jordan every month.
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