FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq
(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 4:30 p.m. EDT on Monday.
* denotes new or updated items.
* BAGHDAD - Eight people were killed and 72 others wounded including eight women and four children overnight in Sadr city, eastern Baghdad, hospital and police sources said.
* BAGHDAD - Six bodies were found in Baghdad, police said.
* BAGHDAD - A mortar round landed behind the Rashid Hotel in the Green Zone government compound, wounding five people including a child, police said.
* BAGHDAD - Five people were wounded in a mortar attack in Abu Nawas street in central Baghdad, police said.
* MOSUL - Gunmen shot dead an off-duty policeman in central Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
* MOSUL - Two policemen were wounded in an attack targeting their vehicle in eastern Mosul, police said.
TIKRIT - Two policemen were killed in a drive-by shooting on Sunday in Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
BAGHDAD - Three mortar bombs landed on a police station in Jazair district, eastern Baghdad, wounding three policemen, police said.
BAGHDAD - A mortar blast wounded one person in the Mansour district, western Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi forces killed 22 militants attacking an Iraqi security force checkpoint on Sunday in northeastern Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed 16 militants in other separate engagements in Baghdad on Sunday, the U.S. military said.
BAGHDAD - One Iraqi soldier was killed and nine people wounded including four soldiers on Sunday, when a parked car bomb struck the Jamiaa District in western Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD - One civilian was killed and seven other people wounded, including four policemen, when a car bomb exploded near a police checkpoint on Sunday in the Harthia district in western Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD - Six bodies were found in different districts across Baghdad on Sunday, police said. Continued...




