FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Oct 10
(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1:30 p.m. British time on Wednesday.
* denotes new or updated item.
* TIKRIT - Six people were killed and 10 wounded when a car bomb exploded near the convoy of Colonel Jassim Hussein Mohammed, the chief of security of Salahuddin province, in the city of Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, a joint U.S. and Iraqi security centre said.
* BAGHDAD - Iraqi soldiers killed 41 suspected insurgents and wounded 89 others during the past 24 hours in different areas of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said.
* BAGHDAD - Gunmen opened fire on a mini-bus, killing one person and wounding six, in the Saidiya district of southern Baghdad, police said.
* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded two people in central Baghdad's Karrada district, police said.
* BAGHDAD - One civilian was killed and six wounded by a roadside bomb targeting a U.S. patrol in Baghdad's Karrada district, police said.
* BAGHDAD - One person was killed and five wounded when gunmen attacked a small bus carrying civil servants in the Bayaa district of southwestern Baghdad, police said.
MOSUL - A member of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan (DPK) and another person were killed when a mini-bus carrying a bomb targeted a DPK office near the city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, Mosul's deputy governor Khesro Goran said. Another 16 people were wounded. Continued...
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