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FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq

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Thu Apr 17, 2008 2:01pm EDT

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 10:30 a.m. EDT on Thursday.

* Denotes new or updated items:

* ADHAIM - A suicide bomber struck a funeral in Adhaim, a village in Diyala province north of Baghdad, killing 50 mourners, police said.

* BAGHDAD - In northern Baghdad, police sources said a roadside bomb killed four neighborhood security guards and two civilians. Gunmen killed another neighborhood guard in the city's south.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces said they killed five militants in gunbattles and airstrikes overnight in the east Baghdad Shi'ite slum of Sadr City. Two Sadr City hospitals said they received the bodies of nine people killed in clashes there.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb struck a police patrol near a bridge in eastern Baghdad, killing two policemen and wounding 10 others, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb exploded in Sina Street, east-central Baghdad, wounding two civilians, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen driving in a car opened fire on civilians in the Zayouna neighborhood of eastern Baghdad, wounding three civilians, police said.

MOSUL - Three people were wounded when gunmen hurled a hand grenade at a police patrol in western Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - A mortar round landed in Palestine Street, eastern Baghdad, on Wednesday wounding seven civilians including 2 women, Iraqi police said.

MOSUL - Iraqi police found the body of a woman in Mosul on Wednesday, police said.

(Compiled by Khalid Al-Ansary, editing by Dean Yates)

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