FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Oct 23
Source: Reuters
Oct 23 (Reuters) - Following are security and other developments in Iraq as of 2200 GMT on Monday: * indicates a new or updated item. *HADITHA - About 70 residents demonstrate to demand release of local Imam detained by Iraqi soldiers on Monday in connection with insurgent activity. BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier was reported missing in Baghdad on Monday, the military said. AMARA - Gunmen dragged two police lieutenants from their homes and dumped their bodies on the city's outskirts hours before a curfew went into effect, a local councillor said. BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier died on Sunday night when the vehicle he was riding in was hit by a roadside bomb southeast of the capital. BALAD - One Iraqi soldier was killed and four wounded in clashes between the Iraqi army and gunmen near Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. BAIJI - One policeman was killed in Baiji, 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. BALAD - A mortar wounded three people in Balad, police said. BAGHDAD - A car bomb targeting a U.S. military patrol north of Baghdad killed two civilians and wounded five, police said. ANBAR PROVINCE - A U.S. Marine died in combat on Saturday, the U.S. military said on Monday. BAGHDAD - Eight bodies with gunshot wounds in the head, some of them bound, were found in different districts of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed four policemen from the Facility Protection Services (FPS) in al-Fadhil district in central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. FPS protects the country's infrastructure. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed two policemen and wounded four others, including two civilians, in Baghdad's western Ghazaliya district, an Interior Ministry source said. BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed a civilian and wounded 13 others near Beirut square in northeastern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed three and wounded 13 others, both police and civilians, near the shrine of a Sunni cleric in central Baghdad, police said. AMARA - The Iraqi government imposed a curfew in the tense southern town of Amara after clashes between Shi'ite militia and police. BALAD - The U.S. military said its forces killed five suspected insurgents, including four who were in a building that was destroyed in an airstrike south of Balad. BAGHDAD - A civilian contractor working as an international police liaison officer was killed and four U.S. soldiers were wounded on Sunday when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in east Baghdad, the U.S. military said. BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier died on Sunday when the vehicle he was travelling in was hit by a roadside bomb in western Baghdad, the U.S. military said. BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier was killed on Sunday by small arms fire while on patrol southwest of Baghdad, the military said on Monday. BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said a soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad and two other soldiers were killed by small arms fire in the capital on Sunday.
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