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FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq

Mon Nov 5, 2007 3:10pm EST

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 12:30 p.m. EST on Monday.

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* MOSUL - Six people, including a woman, were found shot dead in northeastern Mosul on Monday, police said. Some bore signs of torture. Also, a decapitated body was found in the southwest of the city.

* BAGHDAD - Three bodies were found across Baghdad on Monday, police said.

* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a joint Iraqi army and police patrol killed two pedestrians and wounded seven others in the Zaafaraniya district of southern Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - Gunmen shot dead a senior Baghdad civil servant in the Ghadeer neighborhood of eastern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed Hamad Abdul-Latif, a member of the Khadhra neighborhood council, in western Baghdad's Jamiaa district, a hospital source said.

RAMADI - Iraqi police and U.S. forces captured an insurgent bomber and two other suspected militants in Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, on Sunday, the U.S. military said.

SUWAYRA - Iraqi and U.S. forces detained 81 people and found a large weapons cache during an operation against al Qaeda in Iraq near Suwayra, 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, on Friday, the U.S. military said.

MOSUL - Six bodies were found in different areas of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, on Sunday, police said.

BAGHDAD - Four bodies, all shot, were found in Baghdad on Sunday, police said.

BAGHDAD - One person was killed and three wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a car in eastern Baghdad's Baladiyat district, police said.

BAGHDAD - One policeman was killed and six others wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol in Harthiya in western Baghdad on Sunday, police said.

SALMAN PAK - U.S. soldiers killed three insurgents who they found trying to plant a bomb on a road in a village near Salman Pak, 45 km (25 miles) southeast of Baghdad, on Saturday, police said.



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