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FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq, Nov 25

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Wed Nov 25, 2009 9:08am EST

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1400 GMT Wednesday.

* denotes new or updated item

* TARMIYA - Gunmen wearing army uniforms stormed a house and killed six members of the same family, including two women and a teenage girl, in the town of Tarmiya, 25 km (15 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb exploded near a vehicle belong to the Ministry of Interior, wounding four civilians in Baghdad's central Karrada district, police said.

KERBALA - Two roadside bombs exploded in quick succession, killing two people and wounding 19 near the police and army operations center in central Kerbala, 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Baghdad, police and health sources said.

BAGHDAD - A sticky bomb attached to a car wounded two people in Baghdad's northern Adhamiya district Tuesday, police said.

BAGHDAD - Three people were wounded Tuesday when a sticky bomb attached to a car went off in the central Karrada district of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - A sticky bomb attached to a car wounded an off-duty policeman Tuesday in central Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

(Compiled by Baghdad newsroom)

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