FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 15

Fri May 15, 2009 7:46am EDT

May 15 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1130 GMT on Friday.

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* BAGHDAD - Gunmen shot and killed a civilian in his shop in the Jihad district of southwest Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - Militants targeting a U.S. patrol using hand grenades wounded two civilians in the new Baghdad district of eastern Baghdad, police said.

TELKEIF - Police said they found the decapitated body of a man in Telkeif town, on the northern outskirts of Mosul city, about 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad on Thursday.

MOSUL - A militant shot dead an Iraqi policeman at a checkpoint while the policeman was searching his car in western Mosul, police said. After a chase, police returned fire and wounded and arrested the man, they said.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb narrowly missed killing a journalist from a local TV station when it exploded in front of her house in Mosul while she was inside, police said.

TUZ KHURMATO - Gunmen shot and killed a Turkman shopkeeper in his shop in Tuz Khurmato, 170 km (105 miles) north of Baghdad on Thursday, police said.

BAQUBA - Gunmen killed two brothers belonging to a government -backed militia and their mother at their home overnight in northern Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said.

(Muhanad Mohammed, Baghdad newsroom)

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