FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, March 31

Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:13am EDT

March 31 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1500 GMT on Tuesday.

* denotes a new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - A Sunni Arab official who looks after mosques was killed by a bomb planted under his car in northern Baghdad's Adhamiya district, police said.

MOSUL - Attackers wounded three civilians when they hurled a hand-grenade at a U.S. military patrol in central Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Seven people were killed, including four police officers, and 40 others wounded when a suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden truck into the compound of a police station in Mosul, north of Baghdad, police said.

FALLUJA - A sticky bomb attached to a car wounded three police officers in the city of Falluja, 50 km (35 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A mortar round wounded three people in Zaafaraniya district of southeastern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A mortar round wounded two people in eastern Baghdad, police said.






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