FACTBOX - Security developments in Iraq

Mon Aug 25, 2008 5:43pm EDT
 
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(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 8:30 p.m. British time on Monday.

* denotes a new or updated item

* BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier died after being shot during a patrol in northern Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement.

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army killed six suspected militants and arrested 48 others in operations in different parts of Iraq over the past 24 hours, the Defence Ministry said.

TIKRIT - A roadside bomb exploded near a convoy carrying Major-General Hamad Namis Yasin, the police chief of Salahuddin province, wounding six of his guards in central Tikrit, 150 km (95 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

SHIRQAT - A roadside bomb killed two bystanders in the town of Shirqat, 300 km (190 miles) north of Baghdad, police and hospital sources said.

MUSSAYAB - A roadside bomb was planted near the house of Basim Mohammed, a Lieutenant-Colonel of the government facilities guard force, killing his daughter and wounding two sons on Sunday in Mussayab, 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - One body was found with gunshot wounds on Sunday in Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A bomb attached to a car wounded a man, his wife and his daughter in the Jamiaa district in western Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed a man working as a guard for the dean of Mosul University in a drive-by shooting in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

(Compiled by Aws Qusay)

 

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