FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, March 17
Source: Reuters
March 17 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 2300 GMT on Saturday: * denotes a new or updated item. * TIKRIT - One U.S. soldier died on Saturday in a non-combat related incident, the U.S. military said. It said the incident was under investigation but gave no further details. BAGHDAD - Four U.S. soldiers killed by roadside bomb in western Baghdad on Saturday, the U.S. military said. One soldier was wounded in the explosion and a second was wounded in an ensuing gunfight. BAGHDAD - One U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb south of Baghdad on Friday, the U.S. Central Command said. BAQUBA - One soldier shot dead during operations in Baquba on Saturday, the U.S. military said. FALLUJA - Two suicide bombings involving toxic chlorine gas made 350 people ill in Falluja on Friday, the U.S. military said, and another smaller bomb attack near Ramadi also released chlorine gas. Hospital sources said earlier eight people were killed and dozens were became ill after chlorine gas was released in the two bombings in Falluja. SUWAYRA - Police pulled the bodies of two people, with signs of torture, from the Tigris river in the town of Suwayra, south of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - A Sunni mosque in the southern Baghdad neighbourhood of Doura was destroyed by explosives. There were no reports of people hurt. HILLA - A roadside bomb killed one person and wounded five when it exploded in a market in the Shi'ite city of Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. MOSUL - A roadside bomb killed one policeman and wounded another when it exploded near their patrol in the northern city of Mosul, police said. BAGHDAD - Police found the bodies of nine people across Baghdad on Friday, a police source said. BAGHDAD - Three civilians were killed when a mortar hit their house in southern Baghdad on Friday, a police source said. MOSUL - The bodies of two men and two women were found in various districts of Mosul on Friday. Two infants were found alive beside the two dead women, police said. TAJI - U.S. forces killed two suspected insurgents preparing to plant a roadside bomb on a road north of Baghdad on Friday, the U.S. military said. TAJI - U.S. forces killed a suspected insurgent on Thursday as he was unrolling wire to attach to a roadside bomb on a road near Abu Ghraib, northwest of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
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