FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq

Mon Jun 23, 2008 3:55pm BST
 
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(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 10 a.m. EDT on Monday:

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said it had initial reports that one U.S. soldier had been killed and five others wounded in a firefight southeast of Baghdad. One gunmen had been killed, it said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed a policeman and a civilian woman in an attack on a police patrol in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Two other civilians were wounded.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol, wounding three policemen in the Waziriya neighborhood of northern Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed a university student in a drive-by shooting in northern Mosul, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed an off-duty policemen at a market in western Mosul, police said.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb wounded five people including an Iraqi army soldier when it exploded near an Iraqi army patrol in northern Mosul, police said.

(Compiled by Aws Qusay; Editing by Tim Cocks)

 

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