FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq, Sept 22

Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:34am EDT
 
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(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1200 GMT (8:00 a.m. ET) on Monday.

* denotes new or updated item:

* MOSUL - A morgue in the city of Mosul received two bodies with gunshot wounds, police said.

* BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army killed two gunmen and arrested 81 others in the last 24 hours in different parts of the country, the Defence Ministry said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed at least two people and wounded five others in the Karrada district of central Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A mortar bomb killed one person and wounded four others in western Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb wounded two people when it exploded near an Iraqi army patrol in Jamiaa district in western Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed two brothers and wounded a third when they opened fire in a market in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, on Sunday, police said.

SUWAYRA - Police recovered a body showing signs of torture from the Tigris River in Suwayra, 50 km (30 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier died after a small-arms fire attack on his patrol in Baghdad.

(Compiled by Aws Qusay, Editing by Dean Yates)

 

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