FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Aug 19
Source: Reuters
Aug 19 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1100 GMT on Sunday: * denotes new or updated item. * BAGHDAD - Ten people were killed and 42 wounded by four mortar rounds which fell in a residential area of Shi'ite al-Obeidi district in eastern Baghdad, police said. * BAGHDAD - Gunmen stopped a small bus and seized 15 passengers in the Bab al-Muadham area of central Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - One person was killed and six wounded when a bomb on a parked motorcycle exploded in central Baghdad's al-Jamhouriya street, police said. KIRKUK - Two people were wounded by a roadside bomb in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - One person was killed and three wounded by a bomb in a garbage dump in southern Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed three suspected insurgents and detained 21 others during operations targeting al-Qaeda in Iraq in central and northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.
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