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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Feb 1
01 Feb 2007 07:43:15 GMT
Source: Reuters

Feb 1 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 0830 GMT on Thursday:

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said they killed four insurgents who seemed to be planting a roadside bomb in an airstrike northwest of Baghdad on Wednesday evening.

DIWANIYA - Gunmen killed two policemen in the southern city of Diwaniya on Wednesday evening and wounded a third, police sources said.

MOSUL - Police found the bodies of three people in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, including two students, police in the city said.

MOSUL - A mortar round killed two civilians when they landed in a residential area of Mosul, police said.

ANBAR PROVINCE - A U.S. soldier died from wounds sustained in an attack on Tuesday in the insurgent stronghold province of Anbar in western Iraq, the U.S. military said.
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