FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq
(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1 p.m. EST on Sunday.
* denotes new or updated item
* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded three policemen in the Mashtal district of east Baghdad, police said.
* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a lorry carrying pre-cast blast walls wounded two civilians in the Yarmouk district of west Baghdad, police said.
* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb near a restaurant wounded eight civilians in Palestine Street in northeastern Baghdad.
MOSUL - Gunmen in a car killed two guards protecting a communications tower on Saturday in northeastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
MOSUL - Gunmen in a car shot dead an off-duty policeman on Saturday in northern Mosul, police said.
BAGHDAD - The deputy head of the U.S.-backed neighborhood patrols program was wounded when a bomb exploded near his house on Saturday in the al-Furat district of southwestern Baghdad, police said. Five of his neighbors were wounded in the blast.
BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded three policemen on Saturday when it targeted their patrol near central Baghdad's Al-Shaab stadium, police said.
BAGHDAD - A mortar round wounded two Iraqi soldiers on Saturday in the Jamiaa district of western Baghdad, police said.
(Compiled by Aseel Kami; Editing by Andrew Dobbie)
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