FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Aug 11

Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:21am EDT
 
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Aug 11 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1300 GMT on Monday.

* denotes new or updated item.



* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded eight people including four traffic policemen in Bab al-Sheikh district of central Baghdad, police said.

* MOSUL - Gunmen killed one policeman when they attacked his house in eastern Mosul, police said. One gunman was killed in the attack.

BAQUBA - A female suicide bomber wearing a belt packed with explosives killed a policeman and wounded 17 people when she targeted a police station in central Baquba, police said.

BAGHDAD - A pipe bomb attached to a car killed its driver in New Baghdad district of eastern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two Iraqis were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded by a U.S. military patrol near Beirut Square in eastern Baghdad, police said.

BAQUBA - Four women were killed and four others wounded, including a woman, when a roadside bomb exploded by their pick-up vehicle near Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - A car bomb exploded near a petrol station and wounded two people in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - The bodies of two men and a woman were found shot in Baghdad on Sunday, police said.

MOSUL - A pipe bomb attached to a car killed a man on Sunday in Mosul, police said.

(Compiled by Aseel Kami and Aws Qusay)

 

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