FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Oct 9

Tue Oct 9, 2007 5:40pm BST
 
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(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 5 p.m. British time on Tuesday.

* Denotes new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - Security guards with convoy in the central Baghdad district of Karrada killed two women in a car, the Iraqi government and police said.

BAIJI - Two suicide car bombers killed at least 22 people and wounded 30 in attacks on a mosque and the police chief in the oil refinery city of Baiji, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. The powerful blasts flattened several homes and severely damaged a mosque.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed at least six people and wounded 38 when it blew up in a car park opposite a Shi'ite shrine near a busy roundabout in central Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed two people and wounded five when it exploded in northern Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite district of Binoog, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two people were killed and four wounded by a car bomb in the northern Baghdad district of Shaab, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed Abdul-Aali Thenoon, the deputy police chief of Nineveh Province, and wounded his driver in a drive-by shooting in the city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - One person was killed and 11 wounded when two roadside bombs exploded in quick succession in the Diyala Bridge district in southern Baghdad, police said.  Continued...

 

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