FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Oct 30

Fri Oct 30, 2009 8:25am EDT
 
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Oct 30 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1215 GMT on Friday.

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* BAGHDAD - A senior police officer on a team investigating two high-profile blasts was found shot dead in his office, police said. But Baghdad security spokesman Major-General Qassim al-Moussawi denied that the officer was part of the investigation team, and said that it was an accidental shooting.

MOSUL - Police found the bullet-ridden body of man carrying a Kurdish police badge west of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen opened fire on an Iraqi checkpoint killing three policemen and wounding an officer in western Mosul on Thursday, police said.

 

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