FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq

Tue Apr 22, 2008 11:41pm BST
 
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(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...

 

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