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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Oct 9
09 Oct 2007 16:55:32 GMT
Source: Reuters
Oct 9 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1630 GMT on Tuesday.

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BAIJI - Two suicide car bombers killed at least 22 people and wounded 30 in attacks on a mosque and the police chief in the oil refinery city of Baiji, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. The powerful blasts flattened several homes and severely damaged a mosque.

BAGHDAD - Security guards with a convoy in the central Baghdad district of Karrada killed two women in a car, the Iraqi government and police said.

* TUZ KHURMATO - A roadside bomb killed two people and wounded three in Tuz Khurmato, 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - Eight bodies were found in different areas of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed at least six people and wounded 38 when it blew up in a car park opposite a Shi'ite shrine near a busy roundabout in central Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed two people and wounded 18 when it exploded in northern Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite district of Binoog, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two people were killed and four wounded by a car bomb in the northern Baghdad district of Shaab, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed Abdul-Aali Thenoon, the deputy police chief of Nineveh Province, and wounded his driver in a drive-by shooting in the city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - One person was killed and 11 wounded when two roadside bombs exploded in quick succession in the Diyala Bridge district in southern Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - Gunmen wounded Abdul-Amir Mahmoud, the head of police intelligence in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Five gunmen and one Iraqi soldier were killed in clashes in Mosul on Monday, police said. Another four soldiers were wounded.

BAGHDAD - Seven bodies were found in different areas of Baghdad on Monday, police said.

KIRKUK - A policeman was assassinated in a drive-by shooting while he stood outside his home in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police said. The gunmen had used a motorcycle to carry out the attack.

AL-QASSIM - Three bodies were found shot and bound in the town of al-Qassim near Hilla, 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Six people were wounded by two mortar rounds which landed in a residential district in eastern Baghdad, police said.

HAWIJA - Two bodies were found on Monday in the town of Hawija, 70 km (40 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said. One of the victims was decapitated, the other had been shot.
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U.S. soldiers with the 2nd Brigade, Infrastructure Coordination Element team walk inside a school during a patrol at the Al Karkh district in central Baghdad October 10, 2007. The mural painting reads 'Iraq first'.



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