FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, June 3
Source: Reuters
June 3 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1500 GMT on Sunday: * denotes new or updated item. * TIKRIT - Two U.S. soldiers were killed when their patrol was attacked with a roadside bomb in Nineveh province on Saturday, the U.S. military said. * BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier was killed by a suicide bomber while on patrol southwest of Baghdad on Friday, U.S. military said. * BAGHDAD - One U.S. soldier was killed by small arms fire while patrolling south of Baghdad on Saturday, the U.S. military said. * BAGHDAD - One U.S. soldier was killed and two others were wounded by a roadside bomb in western Baghdad on Saturday, U.S. military said. * DIYALA - One U.S. soldier was killed and four wounded when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in Diyala province northeast of Baghdad on Saturday, the U.S. military said. * DIYALA - One U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb near his vehicle in Diyala province on Saturday, the U.S. military said. Two others were wounded. * BAGHDAD - Ayad Shahab Ahmed, a director of the Iraqi Central Bank, and his brother were killed in a drive-by shooting in the Amil district of southwestern Baghdad, police said. * NEAR BAQUBA - The bodies of nine people were found shot and bound south of Baquba, police said. * FALLUJA - Iraqi and U.S soldiers killed seven suspected members of Al Qaeda in Iraq, detained eight suspects and destroyed a truck bomb factory in Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad on Saturday, the U.S. military said. * BALAD - Iraqi soldiers killed two suspected insurgents linked to al Qaeda in Iraq and detained two others southwest of Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. * BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed Sheikh Ali Khudher al-Zand, imam of a Sunni mosque, in al-Khadhraa district in western Baghdad on Saturday, Sunni officials said. BALAD RUZ - A car bomb in a busy market killed 10 people and wounded 30 in Balad Ruz, 50 km (35 miles) southeast of Baquba, police said. * DIWANIYA - At least three people were killed, including an Iraqi soldier, in clashes with the Mehdi Army militia on Saturday and Sunday in Diwaniya, 180 km (110 miles) south of Baghdad, police and hospital sources said. Another 29 people were wounded, including five policemen. The Shi'ite Mehdi Army is a militia loyal to anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. BAQUBA - Five people were killed and seven wounded when gunmen at a fake check point opened fire at two minibuses near Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - The bodies of 26 people were found shot in different districts of Baghdad on Saturday, police said. KIRKUK - Two farmers were killed and five wounded in clashes between two Sunni tribes in a rural area near Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad on Saturday, police said. MOSUL - Mosul hospital morgue received the bodies of nine people, including four policemen and a woman, in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, on Saturday, a source in the morgue said.
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