FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Jan 22
Source: Reuters
Jan 22 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1130 GMT on Monday: BAGHDAD - At least 67 people were killed and 142 people wounded when two car bombs exploded simultaneously at a second-hand goods market in Bab al-Sharji, a busy commercial area in central Baghdad, police said. TAL AFAR - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed three policemen and wounded nine, including two policemen, in the northern town of Tal Afar, 420 km (260 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. MOSUL - A car bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed a woman and wounded four people, including two soldiers, on Sunday in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Two more soldiers were killed when troops went to the scene to retrieve the casualties. MOSUL - The bodies of eight people were found on Sunday in different districts of Mosul, police said. All had been shot. MAHAWEEL - Police recovered the body of a man, bound and shot, from an irrigation canal on Sunday in the town of Mahaweel, 75 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad.
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