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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Oct 15
15 Oct 2007 19:03:01 GMT
Source: Reuters
Oct 15 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1900 GMT on Monday.

BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomb killed four people and wounded 25 others, most of them women and children, outside a park in al-Harthiya district in western Baghdad, police said.

NEAR BALAD - A suicide car bomb killed six members of a tribal police unit aligned to the U.S. military in an attack on a checkpoint near Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

RAMADI - Police said they found three bodies with gunshot wounds and signs of torture in Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad.

KUT - Gunmen killed a man in drive by-shooting in central Kut, 170 km (105 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - A roadside bomb wounded four people in central Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

DIWANIYA - Gunmen launched simultaneous mortar and machinegun attacks on two mainly Polish military bases in Diwaniya, 180 km (110 miles) south of Baghdad. A Polish military spokesman said four civilians and three gunmen were killed in the clashes. A hospital official said it had received the bodies of five children.

MOSUL - Police said they found two bodies shot and bound in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad. One of them was a member of the Mosul city council.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed three insurgents and detained 20 suspects during operations to disrupt al Qaeda in Samarra, Ramadi and Tarmiya, the U.S. military said.
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A U.S. soldier stands guard during a patrol of a new village called Village 8 on the outskirts of Baghdad November 7, 2007. About 200 Shi'ite families have relocated in the new village in the southeast of Baghdad after they fled with thousands others from Balad Ruz, north of Iraq several months ago because of sectarian violence. Picture taken November 7, 2007. REUTERS/Erik de Castro (IRAQ)



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