FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq

Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:38pm EDT
 
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(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...

 
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