FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Sept 12
Source: Reuters
Sept 12 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1230 GMT on Wednesday. * denotes new or updated item. * BAGHDAD - Gunmen stopped bank employees driving in a minibus and stole Iraqi currency worth about $240,000 in central Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army killed 12 suspected insurgents and detained 59 others in different parts of Iraq during the past 24 hours, the Defence Ministry said. BAGHDAD - U.S. forces detained 15 suspected insurgents during operations targeting al Qaeda networks in Mosul, Kirkuk and Sinjar, the U.S. military said. BAGHDAD - Gunmen wearing camouflage uniforms stopped bank employees driving in two vehicles and stole Iraqi currency worth about $550,000 in southern Baghdad, police said. HAWIJA - Three people were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near their vehicle close to the town of Hawija, 70 km (40 miles) southwest of Baghdad, police said. RASHEED - A mortar round killed a man and wounded a child in the town of Rasheed, 35 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. MUWAILHA - Police said they found the bodies of two men, shot and tortured, in the town of Muwailha, 50 km (35 miles) south of Baghdad. BAGHDAD - One civilian was killed and five wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a convoy of security vehicles close to Beirut Square in eastern Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - U.S. troops killed 12 suspected insurgents and detained 22 others during operations on Monday targeting al Qaeda militants in Kirkuk, Samarra and Baghdad, the U.S. military said. HILLA - Gunmen killed a policeman near his house in the city of Hilla, 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. MAHAWEEL - Police found the body of a man with gunshot wounds to the head in the town of Mahaweel, 75 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. ISKANDARIYA - Four people were wounded when several mortar rounds landed in a residential district of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - U.S. forces arrested 16 suspected insurgents during a raid in eastern Baghdad on Monday, the U.S. military said. SHIRQAT - Iraqi soldiers detained two suspected al Qaeda cell leaders during a raid on Monday in the town of Shirqat, about 300 km (190 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
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