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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, July 5
05 Jul 2009 18:02:37 GMT
Source: Reuters
July 5 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1800 GMT on Sunday.

* denotes a new or update item.

* BAQUBA - Three bombs exploded in succession at a music shop, wounding nine civilians in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad.

* MOSUL - Attackers threw hand grenades at Iraqi security patrols on five occasions, killing a policeman and wounding 16 people, including several security men, police said. Four struck a police on a busy street in central Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, in the morning. Later, one more grenade attack on an army convoy in eastern Mosul wounded a soldier.

* MOSUL - A gunman killed a policeman guarding an electricity building in central Mosul, police said.

MOSUL - A car bomb targeting a police patrol wounded two policemen and 12 civilians in Mosul, police said.

KIRKUK - Police found the body of a man with bullet wounds to the head and chest in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, on Saturday, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed one civilian and wounded four others in the Bayaa district of southwestern Baghdad, on Saturday, police said.
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