FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Dec 19
Source: Reuters
Dec 19 (Reuters) - Following are security and other developments in Iraq as of 1830 GMT on Tuesday: * indicates new or updated item *BAGHDAD - Police found 53 bodies in different districts of the Iraqi capital, many with signs of torture, an Interior Ministry official said. *DIWANIYA - Gunmen shot dead a police major on the doorstep of his home in Diwaniya, 180 km (112 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - An Iraqi national police battalion commander was relieved of duty on Monday after giving permission to two policemen to illegally arrest two brothers near a security checkpoint in Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement. KUT - Iraqi and U.S. forces captured a supporter of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the suspected leader of a bomb cell, in Kut, 170 km (105 miles) southeast of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement. KIRKUK - A roadside bomb wounded seven policemen when it exploded near the convoy of Lieutenant-Colonel Kamil Ahmed in southern Kirkuk, police said. Ahmed was not hurt in the attack. BAQUBA - A total of 12 bodies, including two women, were found in different parts of the religiously mixed city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. MOSUL - The bodies of four people were found on Monday in different parts of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - A car bomb in a popular market killed one person and wounded three in the southern Baghdad district of Zaafaraniya, police said. A roadside bomb had earlier wounded four people in the same area. RASHEED - Three mortar rounds landed on a residential district, killing one person and wounding three on Monday in the town of Rasheed, just south of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - The Iraqi Army said its forces killed two insurgents and arrested 19 others over the past 24 hours in different parts of Iraq. FALLUJA - A U.S. Marine died on Monday from wounds suffered in combat in Iraq's Anbar province, the U.S. military said. BAGHDAD - Gunmen including some wearing police uniforms stole at least 1.25 billion dinars ($875,000). A police source said the gunmen took the money from people who were picking up money for salaries from a bank. An Interior Ministry source said the gunmen stormed the bank itself and took as much as 2 billion dinars ($1.4 million). BAGHDAD - Gunmen kidnapped a doctor, Omar al-Jubouri, from a hospital in central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.
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