FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Dec 3
Source: Reuters
Dec 3 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1600 GMT on Monday. * denotes new or updated item. * BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed Major-General Fawzi Mohammed Hussein, a senior adviser to Iraqi Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani, in western Baghdad's al-Jameaa district, police said. Hussein's driver was wounded in the attack. SALAHUDDIN PROVINCE - Iraqi soldiers killed five gunmen, who the Defence Ministry said had belts often used in suicide bomb attacks, in Salahuddin province northwest of Baghdad. BAGHDAD - Iraqi soldiers killed two gunmen and arrested 35 other suspects during the past 24 hours in different areas of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said. TARMIYA - U.S. soldiers detained seven suspected al Qaeda members in Tarmiya, 30 km (20 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. SAMARRA - Gunmen killed the headmaster of a secondary school in a drive-by shooting in central Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. MOSUL - Gunmen killed four policemen and wounded two others in an attack on a police patrol in southeastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Police and U.S. soldiers responded to the attack, killing seven gunmen. MOSUL - Two bodies with gunshot wounds were found in southeastern Mosul, police said. NUMANIYA - Five rockets were fired at a base for Georgian troops in Numaniya, 120 km (75 miles) south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. One rocket landed inside the base, causing minor damage but no casualties. HAWIJA - Gunmen killed Sheikh Attallah Iskandar, a local council member, and his driver near Hawija, 70 km (45 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said. The gunmen set the bodies on fire. RAMADI - A suicide car bomber killed three policemen and wounded another in northern Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, on Sunday, police said. RIYADH - Gunmen killed four policemen in an ambush near the town of Riyadh, 60 km (40 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, on Sunday police said. BAGHDAD - Six bodies were found in different areas of Baghdad in the past 24 hours, police said. One of the bodies, a woman's, had been chopped into pieces. KUT - Three policemen were wounded when several mortar bombs hit a police station in Kut, 170 km (105 miles) southeast of Baghdad, a security source said. (Baghdad newsroom; Editing by Paul Tait)
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