FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, December 1

Sat Dec 1, 2007 11:15am GMT
 
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(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1100 GMT on Saturday.

NEAR BAQUBA - Suspected al Qaeda militants killed 12 civilians and abducted 35 in an attack on a Shi'ite Muslim village north of Baghdad early on Saturday, police said.

BAGHDAD - Three bodies were fond in different districts in Baghdad on Friday, police said.

BAQUBA - One U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb which struck his patrol near the city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, on Friday, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - A bomb left in a taxi wounded the driver and another person in the New Baghdad district of the capital, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded three police commandos when it targeted their patrol in the Shaab district of northern Baghdad, police said.

SALMAN PAK - A suicide attack killed one civilian and wounded five others in Salman Pak, 45 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

(Reporting by Aws Qusay in Baghdad; editing by Peter Graff)

 
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