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FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq, July 30

Mon Jul 30, 2007 5:47pm EDT

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 2000 GMT on Monday:

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* denotes new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - Twenty-five bodies were found dumped across Baghdad in the past 24 hours, police said.

* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed four soldiers and wounded three others in the Jamiaa district of western Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed six people and wounded 31 in al-Tayran Square in a mainly Shi'ite area of central Baghdad, police said.

FALLUJA - Three U.S. soldiers were killed in combat in western Anbar province on Thursday, the U.S. military said.

NEAR BALAD - A suicide fuel truck bomb targeting an Iraqi army and police checkpoint killed four people and wounded six near the town of Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, on Sunday, police said.

BALAD - A car bomb targeting a police patrol killed one policeman and wounded six others in Balad on Sunday, police said.

BAGHDAD - Eleven people were wounded in the southern cities of Hilla, Iskandariya and Latifiya after soccer fans fired weapons into the air while celebrating Iraq's Asian Cup win on Sunday, police said.

DIWANIYA - Gunmen killed two policemen in a drive-by shooting in Diwaniya, 180 km (110 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

ISKANDARIYA - Three people were killed and two wounded in a fight between two Shi'ite and Sunni tribes on Sunday in Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.



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