FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Dec 5
Source: Reuters
Dec 5 (Reuters) - Following are security and other developments in Iraq as of 1000 GMT on Tuesday. Asterisk denotes a new or updated item. *BAGHDAD - Mortar rounds hit a popular market killing two people and wounding 10 others in Qahira district in northern Baghdad, police said. *KIRKUK - Police found the body of a policeman, who was kidnapped on Friday, buried in a house in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad. Two kidnappers were arrested, police said. *BAGHDAD - A car bomb in a market killed two people and wounded nine in Amil district in southwestern Baghdad, police said. *BAGHDAD - Two mortar rounds landed on a market, killing two people and wounding five in northern Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - Three car bombs near a fuel station killed 16 people and wounded 25 in the southwestern Bayaa district of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - Gunmen ambushed a bus carrying employees for the Shi'ite Endowment, a religious body that oversees Shi'ite mosques, in northern Baghdad, killing 14 people and wounding four, the organisation said. An Interior Ministry source said 15 were killed and seven wounded in the attack in Qahira district. BAGHDAD - Insurgents attacked a U.S. patrol on Monday, killing one U.S. soldier and wounding five others in northeastern Baghdad, the U.S. military said. MAHMUDIYA - A car bomb in a vegetable market killed one person and wounded two others in Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - Iraqi army arrested 35 insurgents during the last 24 hours in different parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said on Tuesday.
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