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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 10

Sat May 10, 2008 4:56am EDT

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 3:30 a.m. EDT on Saturday:

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BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi security forces killed eight gunmen on Friday in clashes in different districts of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. Two hospitals in east Baghdad's Sadr City slum said they had received the bodies of 19 people and treated 116 wounded in clashes in the past 24 hours.

BAGHDAD - A rocket landed in eastern Baghdad, killing two people and wounding eight others, police said.

BAGHDAD - Five people were wounded in a rocket attack in Baghdad's western Mansour district, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two bodies were found in different districts of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A mortar round wounded three people in eastern Baghdad's Palestine street, police said.

(Compiled by Tim Cocks)



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