FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Jan 30
Source: Reuters
Jan 30 (Reuters) - Following are security and other developments in Iraq at 1600 GMT on Tuesday: * indicates new or updated item BAGHDAD - Mortar rounds rained down in several barrages on Adhamiya in northern Baghdad, killing 17 people and wounding 72, a police source said. A doctor at Nuamaan hospital put the death toll at 20. * BALAD RUZ - A suicide bomber killed at least 23 worshippers and wounded 57 others when he blew himself up at a Shi'ite mosque in the town of Balad Ruz, northeast of Baghdad, Dr. Yassir Ahmed of Balad Ruz hospital said. KHANAQIN - At least 13 people, including three women, were killed and 39 wounded, when a roadside bomb exploded by a procession of Shi'ites marking the climax of the Ashura ceremony in the ethnically mixed town of Khanaqin northeast of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - At least four Shi'ite pilgrims were killed and nine wounded when gunmen opened fire on two minibuses near the southern Baghdad district of Bayaa, police sources said. MOSUL - A car bomb targeted a police patrol, killing two policemen and wounding two others in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police said. BAGHDAD - Police said a mortar round wounded nine pilgrims when it landed in Kadhimiya, a Shi'ite district of northern Baghdad home to a revered shrine, where thousands had gathered to commemorate Ashura. ANBAR PROVINCE - A U.S. Marine died on Monday from wounds sustained in fighting in Anbar Province, the U.S. military said. BAGHDAD - A total of 21 bodies were found in different areas of Baghdad on Monday, police said. BAGHDAD - The death toll from a mortar barrage on Monday in the southern Baghdad district of Zaafaraniya rose to 16 people dead and 28 wounded, a police source said. NEAR MAHAWEEL - Gunmen killed a teacher on Monday on a main road near the town of Mahaweel, 75 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. RAMADI - A suicide truck bomber killed 16 people at the compound of a police rapid reaction force northwest of Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, on Sunday, the U.S. military said. OTHER DEVELOPMENTS KERBALA - Up to 2 million pilgrims commemorated a major annual event in the Shi'ite calendar, Ashura, in the holy city of Kerbala as the event reached its climax. NAJAF - Iraqi Defence Ministry spokesman Mohammed al-Askari said the final toll from a battle on Sunday near Najaf was 263 killed. A total of 502 "Soldiers of Heaven" followers had been arrested, including 210 wounded.
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