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FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq

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Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:11am EDT

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1430 GMT on Monday.

* Denotes new or updated items.

* TIKRIT - A roadside bomb killed two children north of Tikrit, 150 km (95 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* MOSUL - Two truck bombs killed 30 people and wounded 155 in the predominantly Shi'ite village al-Khazna east of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb targeting day laborers killed six people and wounded 19 in a mostly Shi'ite area of southwestern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting laborers killed one civilian and wounded 41 in the Amil district of southwest Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A bomb attached to a minibus killed one civilian and wounded three in northwestern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded eight people in central Baghdad's Karrada district, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two roadside bombs wounded four people in the Adhamiya district in northern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed two people and wounded 14 in the Saidiya district of southern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a traffic police vehicle wounded two policemen in the Ghadir district of east Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed an off-duty policeman in a crowded market in central Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed two people in their car in the Karrada district of central Baghdad on Sunday, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded four civilians in the Mansour district of central Baghdad on Sunday, police said.

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