FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq

Fri Oct 12, 2007 7:40am EDT
 
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(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 6:00 a.m. EDT on Friday.

TUZ KHURMATO - A bomb killed a child and wounded 13 others in a playground as they celebrated the Islamic festival of Eid in the northern Iraqi town of Tuz Khurmato, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. A would-be suicide bomber, who pushed the bomb in a cart filled with toys into the playground, was wounded in the attack.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed four people, including two policemen, and wounded 15 others when it targeted a police patrol in the commercial district of Bab al-Sharji in central Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi security forces found the bodies of five people across Baghdad on Thursday, police said.

KIRKUK - A car bomb in the northern city of Kirkuk on Thursday killed at least seven people and wounded 50 others, including the city's traffic police chief, police said.

 

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