FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Oct 20
Source: Reuters
Oct 20 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1115 GMT on Tuesday. * denotes a new or updated item. * NINEVEH PROVINCE - A roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier and wounded two on Monday in Nineveh province whose capital, Mosul, is 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement. * MOSUL - A roadside bomb wounded two Iraqi soldiers when it struck their patrol in western Mosul, police said. * MOSUL - Iraqi police found the bodies of two men killed by strangulation in southeastern Mosul on Monday, police said. FALLUJA - A car bomb killed four people including two policemen and wounded nine civilians in a town outside of Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded one soldier and three civilians when it struck an army patrol in northern Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb injured two civilians in northern Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - A bomb attached to a minibus wounded three civilians in northern Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded three people in eastern Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol wounded one policeman and two civilians in eastern Baghdad on Monday, police said. MOSUL - Iraqi troops killed a gunman in a raid that wounded one soldier in western Mosul on Monday, police said.
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