FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 26

Thu Apr 26, 2007 8:59pm BST
 
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(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1950 GMT on Thursday:

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* RAMADI - An alliance of Sunni tribal leaders arrested 30 insurgents, including top members of al Qaeda in Ramadi, and confiscated 20 cars including three that were rigged with bombs near Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

* JBELA - A bomb hidden in a bag exploded in a secondary school in the town of Jbela, 65 km south of Baghdad, killing one student and wounding six others, police said.

BAGHDAD - Twenty-six bodies were found in Baghdad in the last 24 hours, police said.

BAGHDAD - Mortar rounds landed in a north-western Baghdad district killing one person and wounding two, police said. Another mortar round landed in the Harthiya district in southern Baghdad, killing one person and wounding two, police said.

KIRKUK - Three bodies, including one of a woman, were found in different parts of Kirkuk 250 km north of Baghdad, police said.

KHALIS - Ten Iraqi soldiers were killed and 15 wounded, including civilians, when a suicide bomber rammed his car into an Iraqi army checkpoint in the town of Khalis, 80 km north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - At least six people were killed and 15 wounded in a car bomb blast near Baghdad University and the Al-Hamra Hotel in the Jadriya district of southern Baghdad, police and Interior Ministry sources said.  Continued...

 

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