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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, June 12
12 Jun 2009 13:18:37 GMT
Source: Reuters
June 12 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1315 GMT on Friday.

* denotes new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - Police said a gunman killed the head of parliament's biggest Sunni Muslim bloc and five other people at a mosque in the west of the capital.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded six civilians in eastern Baghdad's New Baghdad district, police said.

MUSSAYAB - A police officer shot dead two government-backed militia members as they were planting a bomb in the north of Mussayab, 60 km (37 miles) south of the capital, police said.
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