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FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq, March 16

Sun Mar 16, 2008 1:57pm EDT

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 10 a.m. EDT on Sunday.

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MOSUL - Eight people, including two policemen, were wounded in a suicide bomb attack on a Kurdistan Democratic Party office in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two bodies were found in different areas of Baghdad on Saturday, police said.

BAGHDAD - A parked car bomb killed one person and wounded two others in an attack on a convoy of vehicles in western Baghdad's Mansour district, police said.

HAWIJA - Two people were wounded by a bomb in a parked car in Hawija, 70 km (45 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.

MOSUL - Seven people were wounded when three mortar bombs landed on a residential area near an Iraqi army base in western Mosul, police said.

NUMANIYA - The body of an Iraqi contractor working with Georgian troops was found with gunshot wounds in Numaniya, 120 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.



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