FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 7

Tue Apr 7, 2009 10:35am EDT


April 7 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1400 GMT on Tuesday.

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* BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed 9 people and wounded 20 in the Shi'ite district of Kadhimiya, in northwest Baghdad, police said. The bomb occurred a day after a possibly coordinated series of explosions in the capital killed more than 30 people.

* FALLUJA - A suicide bomber rammed his car into a police check point and killed one policeman and wounded nine, including three policemen, in the southern entrance of the city of Falluja, 50 km (35 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

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