FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq, July 1

Sun Jul 1, 2007 4:48am EDT
 
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(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 0830 GMT on Sunday:

* denotes updated or new item

* HAWIJA - One Iraqi soldier was killed in a drive-by shooting in Hawija, 70 km (43 miles) southwest of the northern city of Kirkuk, police said.

* KIRKUK - Gunmen killed a lawyer after raiding his home late on Saturday in southwest Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed one civilian and wounded three others at the entrance of the al-Rashid vegetable market in the Doura district in southern Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded three civilians in the up-scale Mansour district in central Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - Iraqi army soldiers killed eight militants and detained 29 others in operations around Iraq in the last 24 hours, the Defense Ministry said.

* HAWIJA - A gunman was killed while trying to plant a roadside bomb in Hawija, police said.

BAGHDAD - The bodies of 16 people were found shot in different districts of Baghdad on Saturday, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed two policeman and wounded four civilians in eastern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Twelve people were wounded by a mortar round attack on Saturday in Baghdad's southern district of Doura, police said.

BAQUBA - Three Iraqi soldiers were killed and three wounded when they entered a booby trapped house in the city of Baquba on Saturday, police said.

NUMANIYA - Police retrieved the bodies of two people, shot and tortured, from a river in the town of Numaniya, 120 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

 

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