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FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq

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Mon Jun 22, 2009 7:17am EDT

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 7a.m. EDT on Monday.

* denotes new or updated item

* MOSUL - Gunmen killed two Iraqi soldiers at a checkpoint in east Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* MOSUL - Gunmen opened fire on policemen in central Mosul, killing two, police said.

* MOSUL - Police found a body with bullet wounds to the head and chest in central Mosul, police said.

* BAGHDAD - A parked car bomb in central Baghdad's Karrada district killed five people, police said.

* FALLUJA - A suicide bomber detonated himself outside the Falluja municipal council building, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, killing one person and wounding five, police said.

* KHANAQIN - A roadside bomb killed three soldiers near the town of Khanaqin, 140 km (100 miles) northeast of Baghdad, the army said.

* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb went off near a police patrol, killing three civilians and wounding 12 others near al-Hamza Square in Baghdad's northeastern district of Sadr City, police said. The victims were all students in a passing mini-bus.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded three people in Baghdad's eastern Habibiya district, police said.

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