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FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq

Sat Jun 20, 2009 12:27pm EDT

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 10:00 a.m. EDT (1400 GMT) on Saturday.

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* KIRKUK - A suicide truck bomb killed at least 34 people and wounded about 150 others outside a mosque near Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police and hospital sources said. Dozens of homes in the area were flattened by the blast.

* BASRA - Iraqi security forces backed by coalition forces killed a suspected militant in Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed an off-duty policeman and wounded his mother when they opened fire on his car in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - A roadside bomb targeting a police convoy wounded two civilians in northern Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

RAMADI - Two mortar rounds killed a man and wounded eight other people, including two police officers, when they landed on a house and a police station in southern Ramadi, 100 km (62 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - Attackers stabbed to death a policeman in central Kirkuk late on Friday, police said.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi security forces found the bodies of four men with gunshot wounds on Thursday in a house under construction in Baghdad's eastern Sadr City district, a security source said.



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