FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Nov 8
Source: Reuters
Nov 8 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1900 GMT on Wednesday: Asterisk denotes a new or updated item. * BAGHDAD - Police in Baghdad found 29 bodies around the capital in the last 24 hours with gunshot wounds and signs of torture, an Interior Ministry source said. * BAGHDAD - Mortars that hit the Sunni district of Adhamiya in Baghdad killed one person and wounded 12, an Interior Ministry source said. * BAGHDAD - A car bomb in the Mansour district of Baghdad killed one and wounded three, an Interior Ministry source said. BAGHDAD - Eight people were killed and another 20 wounded when mortars slammed into a residential area in Baghdad's Shi'ite stronghold of Sadr City, police said. BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier was killed and three others were wounded on Tuesday in combat in northern Kirkuk Province, the U.S. military said. MOSUL - Police found six bodies with gunshot wounds in different parts of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. RAMADI - A suicide car bomb exploded as a U.S. military convoy passed, wounding five civilians, police said. BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed three people and wounded three in the southwestern Amil district of Baghdad, police said. ANBAR PROVINCE - A U.S. marine died from wounds sustained in combat in the western Anbar Province, the U.S. military said. MUQDADIYA - A car bomb killed four people and wounded six in a market in the town of Muqdadiya, 90 km (50 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said. NEAR MUQDADIYA - Gunmen killed four relatives, two of them policemen, in a village near Muqdadiya, police said. BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army arrested 41 suspected insurgents during the last 24 hours in different parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said. BAGHDAD - A mortar round landed in the Shi'ite district of Kadhimiya in northwestern Baghdad, killing two people and wounding eight, an Interior Ministry source said. MAHMUDIYA - A car bomb killed six people and wounded 25 in a market in the town of Mahmudiya south of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. NEAR KIRKUK - Clashes erupted between gunmen and the Iraqi army near a village 30 km (20 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, killing six gunmen and wounding one soldier, the army said. NEAR MUQDADIYA - U.S. forces killed 10 al Qaeda operatives associated with foreign fighter organisations near Muqdadiya and rescued a kidnapped Iraqi policeman, the U.S. military said in a statement. BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed four suspected insurgents and detained 48 others on Tuesday during a raid on an al Qaeda meeting place in Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed a man and wounded six others in northern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. BAGHDAD - A mortar round landed in the northern al-Qahira district of Baghdad and wounded four people, an Interior Ministry source said. BAGHDAD - A car bomb wounded four police commandos in the eastern Baladiyat district of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. BAGHDAD - Two mortar rounds landed near al-Amin square in central Baghdad and wounded eight people, an Interior Ministry source said. BAGHDAD - Two mortar rounds landed near the Ministry of Health in central Baghdad, killing three people and wounding eight, an Interior Ministry source said. ISKANDARIYA - A roadside bomb near a house killed two people on Tuesday night in the town of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. SAMAWA - Gunmen killed a police lieutenant colonel on Tuesday in front of his house in Samawa, 270 km (170 miles) south of Baghdad, a medical source said.
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