FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq
(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 3:30 p.m. EDT on Tuesday.
* denotes new or updated item:
* BAGHDAD - A rocket attack in eastern Baghdad killed six people and wounded 10, police said.
* BASRA - A U.S. Marine was killed by a roadside bomb in the southern city of Basra on Monday, the U.S. military said. One Marine was wounded in the attack.
* BAQUBA - U.S. forces killed six gunmen in a firefight in Kalaf Al-Hasun village in Diyala province on Monday, the U.S. military said.
* BAGHDAD - Police found three bodies in Baghdad.
* BAGHDAD - A female suicide bomber killed eight people and wounded 17 when she blew herself up north of Baghdad, Iraqi police said. They said the attack took place outside a police station in Diyala province.
RAMADI - Two U.S. Marines were killed and three Marines, two Iraqi police and 24 Iraqi civilians were wounded when a suicide car bomb blew up at a checkpoint near Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
BAGHDAD - A car bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol detonated in the al-Mansour district of western Baghdad, killing one and wounding two, police said. Continued...







