FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq

Sun Jul 6, 2008 2:27pm BST
 
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(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 2:00 p.m. British time on Sunday.

JALWALA - A roadside bomb killed up to seven family members of a senior Iraqi Kurdish official in Jalawla, 115 km (70 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A parked car bomb killed six people including a woman and wounded 14 others in Shaab district, in northern Baghdad, police said.

MUSSAYAB - The body of a woman was found with gunshot wounds and signs of torture in Mussayab, 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

HASWA - A roadside bomb killed one person and wounded another when it blew up near their vehicle in Haswa, 50 km (30 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A parked car bomb wounded five people in west Baghdad's Jamiaa district, police said.

(Compiled by Aws Qusay)

 
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