FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Nov 9
Source: Reuters
Nov 9 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1200 GMT on Thursday: Asterisk denotes a new or updated item. * BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeted a police commando patrol near a petrol station in central Baghdad and four people were wounded, an Interior Ministry source said. * TAL AFAR - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed four people, including a policeman, and wounded eight others, including a policeman, in Tal Afar, police said. * MOSUL - A total of six people were shot dead, including a police officer, in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, a medical source said. * LATIFIYA - The bodies of four people were found, bound and gagged, in the town of Latifiya, in an area dubbed "The Triangle of Death" south of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed two people and wounded 11 others in Qahira district in northern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. TAL AFAR - A rocket landed in a residential district and killed two policemen and wounded four civilians in the town of Tal Afar, 420 km (260 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. BAGDHAD - A car bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed two people and wounded four others, both soldiers and civilians, near the college of Fine Arts in north central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed two people and wounded 26 others in central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed six people and wounded 28 in Karada in central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. BAQUBA - A total of eight people were killed in different parts of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - The bodies of five labourers were found in the southern Doura district of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. They were abducted in the morning at a site where they usually gathered waiting to be hired. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded four people in the New Baghdad district of the capital, an Interior Ministry source said. BAGHDAD - A car bomb blew up wounding two policemen while they were trying to dismantle it in the eastern Zayouna district of the capital, police said. BAGHDAD - A car bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed a soldier and wounded four civilians in Palestine street in northeastern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. BAGDHAD - A roadside bomb wounded three people in southern Baghdad, police said. NEAR BAGHDAD - Police arrested two insurgents when they raided a village south of Baghdad, police said. They found a corpse in the same area. BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a police lieutenant colonel in Sadoun street in central Baghdad, police said.
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