FACTBOX - Security developments in Iraq

Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:43pm BST
 
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(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1530 GMT on Saturday:

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TAL AFAR - Tuesday's suicide truck bombing in the northern town of Tal Afar left 152 people dead and 347 wounded according to a final tally revealed by Iraq's Interior Ministry. The bomb, which targeted a Shi'ite neighborhood of the religiously mixed town, destroyed 100 homes. Forty-seven Sunnis were killed in reprisals after the attack.

*KIRKUK - Gunmen ambushed a vehicle carrying civilian workers employed at an Iraqi military base near Hawija, 70 km (43 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, killing eight and wounding two, police said. Four brothers were among the dead.

*MAHMUDIYA - Three mortar bombs hit a residential area in Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, killing two people and wounding four, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed five people and wounded 22 outside the Sadrayn hospital in the Shi'ite district of Sadr City in Baghdad, police said.

HILLA - A car bomb killed four people and wounded 23 in the Shi'ite city of Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

TUZ KHURMATO - A suicide car bomb targeting Shi'ite day laborers killed two people and wounded 11 in the town of Tuz Khurmato, 70 km (43 miles) south of Kirkuk, police said.

BAGHDAD - Police said they found 13 bodies in different parts of Baghdad on Friday.  Continued...

 

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