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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Jan 1

Thu Jan 1, 2009 7:18am EST
Jan 01 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1215 GMT on Thursday.

MOSUL - A suicide truck bomber killed three policemen and wounded five civilians on Thursday in southern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed an off-duty policeman in a drive-by shooting in eastern Mosul, police said.

KIRKUK - Iraqi forces, backed by U.S. soldiers, killed three gunmen on Wednesday after clashes in a village southwest of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - One militant was killed and another was wounded while the men were planting a roadside bomb in southern Kirkuk on Wednesday, police said.



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