FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq

Mon Jun 29, 2009 2:48pm EDT
 
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(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 2:00 p.m. EDT (1800 GMT) on Monday.

*denotes a new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier in Baghdad died on Sunday after wounds sustained in combat, the U.S. military said.

HAMDANIYA - Ten people were killed, including six policemen, by a car bomb in the town of Hamdaniya, just east of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

NEAR MOSUL - Two policemen were killed and three others were wounded when their patrol was ambushed at a booby-trapped bridge in the small town of Hammam al-Alil, 25 km (15 miles) south of Mosul, police said.

KIRKUK - A bomb wounded one civilian in southern Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Police found four bodies with bullet wounds to the head and chest in different parts of Mosul, police said.

RAMADI - A roadside bomb killed a member of the Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party and wounded his son when it struck their car in Ramadi, 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad, on Sunday, police said.

 

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