FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq, June 7

Sat Jun 7, 2008 12:22pm EDT
 
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(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 9:30 a.m. EDT on Saturday:

* denotes a new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed three civilians and wounded another fifteen in central Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb struck a police patrol in the Mansour district in western Baghdad, killing one civilian and wounding two others, police said.

MOSUL- A suicide bomber blew himself up at an Iraqi police checkpoint in the Baaj district of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, wounding three policemen, police said.

MOSUL - The U.S. military said they killed four gunmen and captured two wanted men southwest of Mosul.

BAGHDAD - A bomb planted beneath a car wounded a ministry of defense employee and two other people in the Mansour district in western Baghdad, police said

AL-WIHDA - Iraqi security forces found the remains of four people and two bags filled with human bones at a former army intelligence centre in the town of al-Wihda, 25 km (15 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi troops sweeping through the Baghdad stronghold of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have found large quantities of weapons, including helicopter missiles and an anti-aircraft gun, the U.S military said.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi national police and U.S. forces seized a number of weapons caches and killed one gunman on Friday in northwest Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

(Compiled by Khalid al-Ansary)

 

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