FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Feb 28
Source: Reuters
Feb 28 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1400 GMT on Wednesday: * Indicates a new or updated item. * MAALEF - U.S.-backed Iraqi forces found a weapons cache in Maalef, near Mosul, that including 194 mortar rounds, 14 mortar tubes, 18 rocket-propelled grenade launchers, 160 rockets, a suicide vest and other gear for making bombs, the U.S. military said. * BAGHDAD - Mortars wounded nine civilians in southwestern Baghdad in a residential area, a police source said. * BAGHDAD - The body of a police colonel who had been kidnapped two months ago was found in northern Baghdad. BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed 10 people and wounded 21 near a vegetable market in Bayaa district in southern Baghdad, police said. NEAR TAJI - U.S. forces killed eight insurgents and detained six suspects during operations targeting foreign fighter facilitators and the al-Qaeda in Iraq network northeast of Taji, 20 km (9 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. MUQDADIYA - Gunmen killed two brothers of prominent Sunni politician Saleem al-Jubouri in the insurgent stronghold of Muqdadiya, north of Baghdad, police and Jubouri said. BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomber attacked a police station in Nahdha district in central Baghdad, killing two policemen and wounding another two, police said. BASRA - A British soldier was killed by gunfire while on patrol in Iraq's second city Basra, the British Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday. MAHMUDIYA - Mortars killed one civilian and wounded another four from the same family in the town of Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. RIYADH - At least four Iraqi soldiers were seriously wounded when a roadside bomb struck their patrol in the town of Riyadh, 60 km (40 miles) southwest of the northern oil city of Kirkuk, an army source said. TIKRIT - Gunmen shot dead a man inside his car on Tuesday in Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. HIMREEN - Police found a body shot in the head in the town of Himreen, 120 km (75 miles) south of the northern oil city of Kirkuk, police said. MOSUL - Gunmen killed Abdul-Hadi Mahmoud, the head of a government office in Mosul that issues identity cards, in a drive-by shooting in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. ISKANDARIYA - Several mortar rounds landed in a residential district, killing a man and woman, in the town of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - A report of a bomb killing 18 people, mostly children, on Tuesday in Ramadi was wrong and stemmed from confusion over a similar attack the day before, police officials and residents said. There was no such attack on Tuesday.
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