FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq, July 13

Sun Jul 13, 2008 7:56am EDT
 
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(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 7:00 am ET on Sunday.

DHULUIYA - One police officer and one member of a U.S.-backed neighborhood patrol group were killed when militants opened fire on a soccer game in Dhuluiya, 70 km (45 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said, adding that three other people were wounded.

FALLUJA - Three policemen were killed and four people wounded, including two policemen, when two roadside bombs went off in central Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, police and hospital sources said.

BAGHDAD - Six people including two policemen were wounded by a roadside bomb blast in Palestine street, eastern Baghdad, police said.

NEAR MOSUL - Gunmen killed a member of the political office of the Shabak minority group inside his car on Saturday, east of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed one person in a drive-by shooting in western Mosul, police said.

(Compiled by Aws Qusay)

 

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