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FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq
(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 6:30 p.m. EDT on Wednesday.
* denotes to new or updated item:
* MOSUL - A suicide car bomb killed eight civilians and wounded 26 other people in the city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, a city security spokesman said. The attack targeted the convoy of Major-General Riyadh Jalal Tawfiq, army commander of northern Iraq's Nineveh province.
* TIKRIT - An explosion killed one U.S. soldier and wounded two others in Salahuddin province, the U.S. military said. It gave no more details.
* RAMADI - Police found 11 bodies in a grave in the city of Ramadi in Anbar province, police said.
KUT - Police found the body of a young girl dumped in a ditch close to the city of Kut, 150 km (95 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.
FALLUJA - Two roadside bombs killed six people and wounded 18 outside a bank in Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, police said. The U.S. military also said six people were killed but added there were three bomb blasts outside the bank.
MOSUL - Gunmen shot dead a policeman in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
BAQUBA - A roadside bomb killed four Iraqi civilians on Tuesday when it struck a funeral procession in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, a U.S. military statement said.
TUZ KHUMATO - Iraqi police found the body of a civilian in Tuz Khurmato, 170 km (105 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD - U.S. troops caught two suspected Shi'ite militants on Wednesday in the Shula district of northwestern Baghdad, a U.S. military statement said.
(Compiled by Khalid al-Ansary, Editing Dean Yates)
