FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Dec 10
Source: Reuters
Dec 10 (Reuters) - Following are security and other developments in Iraq as of 1330 GMT on Sunday: Asterisk denotes a new or updated item. * BAGHDAD - Iraq's army arrested 95 suspected insurgents during the last 24 hours in various parts of Baghdad, the Defence Ministry said. * BAGHDAD - The headless bodies of three people were found in the Hurriya district of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. * KIRKUK - Gunmen opened fire at a bakery and killed a 15- year-old worker in Kirkuk, police said. * BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed army colonel Yaarub Khazaal, a security guard for Ahmed Chalabi, head of the deBaathification committee, in the western Yarmouk district of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. * BAGHDAD - The bodies of three people, shot and tortured, were found in the town of Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. * BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol wounded three policemen in Yarmouk district in western Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. * NEAR BAGHDAD - Gunmen attacked a family driving in a main road north of Baghdad, killing two children and wounding six others in a drive-by shooting, police said. * RABIA - A suicide bomber driving a pick-up truck rammed his vehicle into a parking of fuel trucks, setting four oil trucks on fire, police said. * RAMADI - Gunmen attacked a residential district with mortar rounds, wounding three people in the city of Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, police said. * RAMADI - Gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked a joint U.S.-Iraqi checkpoint in Ramadi, killing a university student who was standing nearby, police said. BAGHDAD - Shi'ite militias attacked Sunni homes in Baghdad's religiously mixed Hurriya district on Saturday, Interior Ministry officials and witnesses said. More than 30 families fled after the militias torched homes and killed at least one person, witnesses and officials said. BAGHDAD - A total of 40 bodies -- many of them shot and tortured -- were found across Baghdad on Saturday, an Interior Ministry source said. BAGHDAD - A mortar round landed on Kadhimiya district in northwestern Baghdad, killing two people and wounding two others on Saturday, an Interior Ministry source said. MOSUL - A hospital source said they received the bodies of two policemen and a soldier with gunshot wounds on Saturday. BAGHDAD - Clashes erupted between Shi'ite militias and a Sunni tribe in Amil district in southwestern Baghdad on Saturday, an Interior Ministry source said, adding fighting continued on Sunday. BAGHDAD - Shi'ite militias attacked Sunni families in Adil district, western Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. KIRKUK - Gunmen attacked a hairdresser's shop and killed its owner on Saturday in the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
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