FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq, Sept 1

Mon Sep 1, 2008 9:48am EDT
 
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(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1300 GMT on Monday.

* denotes new or updated item

* TUZ KHURMATO - A roadside bomb wounded ten people, including seven policemen, when it exploded in Tuz Khurmato, 170 km (105 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - A bomb planted in a car wounded three people in

the Karrada neighborhood of central Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - U.S. forces detained 14 militants during operations targeting al Qaeda on Sunday and Monday in central and northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - A sniper shot dead two Iraqi soldiers on Sunday in Mansour district, in western Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two bodies were found with gunshot wounds on Sunday in Baghdad, police said.

TUZ KHURMATO - A roadside bomb wounded police Lieutenant-Colonel Hussain Ali just outside his house in Tuz Khurmato, police said.

MOSUL - Eight people were wounded including three policemen, by three roadside bombs on Sunday in different districts of Mosul, 240 miles north of Baghdad, police said.

(Compiled by Aws Qusay)

 

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