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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Oct 26

Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:34am EDT

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1330 GMT on Friday.

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* LATIFIYA - Two handcuffed and blindfolded bodies were found with gunshot wounds in Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

* NEAR KIRKUK - Two policemen were wounded by a roadside bomb that targeted their patrol on the road between Kirkuk and Mosul, police said.

MOSUL - Five bodies were found in Mosul, 390 km north of Baghdad, on Thursday, police said.

MOSUL - Iraqi soldiers killed two men inside a car that refused to stop at a checkpoint in Mosul on Thursday. Police said the Iraqi soldiers found weapons inside the car.

MOSUL - Iraqi soldiers killed six gunmen in clashes in western Mosul on Thursday, police said.

BAGHDAD - Five bodies were found in different districts in Baghdad on Thursday, police said.

DIWANIYA - A roadside bomb killed two policemen and wounded three others in the town of Dagghara, 10 km north of Diwaniya, police said. Diwaniya is 180 km south of Baghdad.

HILLA - A mortar attack wounded four people in central Hilla, 100 km south of Baghdad, on Thursday, police said.

HAWIJA - Gunmen killed a nurse in a drive-by shooting outside the major hospital in central Hawija, 70 km southwest of Kirkuk, police said.



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