FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq

Mon Jan 7, 2008 2:13pm EST
 
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(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 2:00 p.m. EST on Monday.

* Denotes new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - Gunmen in five cars kidnapped between eight and 10 neighborhood patrol volunteers in Baghdad's northern Shaab district. Police said the volunteers had been manning a vehicle checkpoint.

* BAGHDAD - Seven bodies were found around Baghdad, police said.

* MOSUL - Two bodies were found in eastern Mosul, one of them handcuffed and blindfolded, police said.

* LATIFIYA - Gunmen killed a neighborhood patrol volunteer at a checkpoint in Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two suicide bombers struck an anti-Qaeda force in a Sunni Arab district of Baghdad, killing at least 14 people including the leader of the area's neighborhood patrols, police said.

BAGHDAD - A bomb hidden in a street vendor's cart killed four people and wounded 16 others in the Karrada district of central Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A bomb stuck on the side of a parked car killed one civilian and wounded four, including two policemen, when it detonated near a police checkpoint on the outskirts of Baghdad's Shi'ite slum of Sadr City, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two separate roadside bombs wounded four people in Baghdad's Karrada district, police said.

NEAR HAWIJA - Gunmen killed a married couple and their son whilst they were in their car near Hawija, 70 km (45 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.

SAMARRA - Gunmen killed a member of a neighborhood patrol working as a carpenter inside his shop in Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

NEAR BAQUBA - Five bodies with gunshot wounds to the head were found in a town southeast of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. The bodies of the men were blindfolded and had their hands tied.

KIRKUK - A roadside bomb wounded one Iraqi soldier and one civilian on Sunday, in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two roadside bombs killed a civilian and wounded two policemen in southern Baghdad's Jadiriya district, police said.

MOSUL - Police said a third church had been struck by a bomb in Mosul on Sunday. In all, three churches and a monastery were hit in Sunday's strikes on Christian religious buildings. One of the explosions wounded four people but no one was killed.  Continued...

 

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