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FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq

Mon Mar 10, 2008 12:24pm EDT

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Monday.

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* BAGHDAD - Five U.S. soldiers were killed and three others wounded in a bomb blast in central Baghdad's Mansour district, the U.S. military said. An Iraqi interpreter was also wounded. Iraqi police said a suicide bomber walked up to the U.S. foot patrol and detonated a vest packed with explosives. Another police official said nine Iraqis were wounded.

* BAGHDAD - One person was killed and four wounded by a bomb in a parked car near a hospital in Sadr City in northeastern Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - U.S. soldiers killed five suspected al Qaeda fighters and detained 19 others during operations in central Iraq on Sunday, the U.S. military said.

* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded two people in eastern Baghdad's Zayouna district, police said.

* MOSUL - Two gunmen were killed and two others wounded during clashes with Iraqi police in Ba'aj village in northwestern Iraq near the Syrian border, the Ba'aj mayor said.

BASRA - Gunmen killed Dr. Khalid Nasir al-Mayyahi, the director of a training hospital in Basra, 550 km (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, in a drive-by shooting outside the hospital, police said.

KANAAN - A female suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives killed Thaer Saggban al-Karkhi, a Sunni Arab tribal sheikh, and three others including his niece in the town of Kanaan near Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Karkhi was head of a local neighborhood security unit. Two of his bodyguards were wounded.

BAGHDAD - One person was killed and five wounded when a bomb in a parked minibus exploded in northern Baghdad's Shaab district, police said.

MUQDADIYA - A suicide bomber wearing an explosives-packed vest killed two people and wounded 20, including two policemen, in Muqdadiya, 90 km (55 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed two policemen in separate incidents in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, on Sunday, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed a woman and her son in an attack on their car on the road between Mosul and Tal Afar on Sunday, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed a man in eastern Mosul on Sunday, police said.

MOSUL - Two bodies were found in different areas of Mosul on Sunday, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two bodies were found in Baghdad on Sunday, police said.



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