FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Nov 11
Source: Reuters
Nov 11 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1950 GMT on Saturday: *Asterisk indicates new or updated item. *LATIFIYA - Gunmen stopped three minibuses carrying Shi'ites in the town of Latifiya south of Baghdad, killed nine passengers and kidnapped 13 others, police said. The buses were on their way from Diwaniya, 180 km (112 miles) south of Baghdad, to the capital when the attack occurred at nightfall. *BAGHDAD - Iraqi special forces, backed by U.S. military advisers, conducted a raid in Baghdad's Shi'ite stronghold of Sadr City on Friday in a hunt for a death squad leader blamed for sectarian killings, kidnapping and torture, the U.S. military. Five suspects were detained, it said. BAGHDAD - Two soldiers, a Pole and a Slovak, were shot dead when gunmen attacked them moments after a bomb targeted their military humvee near the city of Kut, 170 km (105 miles) south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement. Two other soldiers, a Pole and an Armenian, were wounded. BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army said it killed four militants and arrested 13 in different parts of Iraq during the last 48 hours. KIRKUK - A roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol wounding three civilians in the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk, police said. BAGHDAD - Two car bombs killed eight people and wounded at least 38 others when they exploded in quick succession in central Baghdad's wholesale Shorja market, Interior Ministry sources said. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed one motorist and wounded five others in eastern Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb exploded in eastern Baghdad, killing one civilian, Interior Ministry sources said. BAQUBA - A suicide car bomber attacked a police station, killing two people, including one woman, in the town of Zaghinya to the north of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - Gunmen shot dead an intelligence officer in southern Baghdad's Bayaa district, Interior Ministry sources said. BAGHDAD - Police found five bodies, including a woman, bearing signs of torture and bullet wounds, in different parts of Baghdad, Interior Ministry sources said. KIRKUK - A roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol, seriously wounding four policemen in the northern oil city of Kirkuk, police said.
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