FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 2
Source: Reuters
May 2 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1930 GMT on Wednesday: * denotes new or updated item. BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed 10 people and wounded 35 near a police station in the Baghdad Shi'ite stronghold of Sadr City, police said. * BAGHDAD - Three U.S. soldiers died in two separate roadside bomb attacks in Baghdad on Wednesday, the U.S. military said. Two soldiers died and two others were wounded in one bombing in a southern Baghdad. Another female soldier was wounded and later died in a similar attack in western Baghdad. BAGHDAD - Thirty bodies have been found around Baghdad in the past 24 hours, police said. All had been shot. BAGHDAD - Several mortar rounds landed in Abu Dshir, a residential district in southern Baghdad, killing three people and wounding eight, police said. BAGHDAD - A mortar round landed in Sadr City in Baghdad, wounding five people, police said. MAHMUDIYA - A bomb planted inside a minibus killed up to 11 people in the town of Mahmudiya, about 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. MAHMUDIYA - Several mortar rounds killed three people and wounded 15 others in Mahmudiya, police said. BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army killed 25 insurgents and arrested 122 others in the past 48 hours in different parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said. MOSUL - Gunmen killed Nidhal al-Asadi, a university professor, in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. ANBAR PROVINCE - U.S. forces detained 10 suspected insurgents in Anbar province and two others in Baghdad during overnight raids targeting senior al Qaeda leaders and roadside bomb networks. BAGHDAD - At least three people were killed and 15 wounded when several mortar rounds landed in three different districts in south and southwestern Baghdad on Tuesday, police said. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed a person and wounded two others in northern Baghdad on Tuesday, police said. UDHAIM - Gunmen killed two employees working at a cell phone company on Tuesday in the town of Udhaim, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
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