FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, April 1

Sun Apr 1, 2007 6:40pm BST
 
Email | Print | | Single Page
[-] Text [+]

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1700 GMT on Sunday:

* denotes new or updated item.

* BAQUBA - Gunmen kidnapped 19 civilians after stopping cars at a fake checkpoint near the city of Baquba, Iraqi police said. Police said those kidnapped, all men, were from a Shi'ite village near Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad.

* BAGHDAD - Police said 16 bodies were found in Baghdad on Sunday.

MOSUL - Two suicide lorry bombs killed two people and wounded 17 when they exploded at an Iraqi army base east of the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. The two dead were civilians while most of the wounded were soldiers.

BAGHDAD - Omar al-Jubouri, a member of the Sunni Islamic Party and a parliament member, escaped a roadside bomb attack in the Yarmouk district of western Baghdad. No one in his motorcade was hurt, the office of the Islamic Party said. Police said two of his guards were wounded.

TIKRIT - Gunmen killed an Iraqi police lieutenant-colonel and wounded his driver in the city of Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Police also found two bodies in the city's east.

BAGHDAD - The bodies of 10 people were found shot in different districts of Baghdad on Saturday, police said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed an insurgent and captured four others during operations against al Qaeda in Baghdad and near the Syrian border on Sunday, the U.S. military said.  Continued...

 

Most Popular General News on Reuters UK

  • Articles
  • Videos
 A demonstrator pounds away the Berlin Wall as East Berlin border guards look on from above the Brandenburg Gate in this November 11, 1989 file photo. REUTERS/David Brauchli/File Photo
Berlin Wall anniversary

Twenty years after the Berlin Wall's fall, Reuters provides an in-depth, multimedia look at one of the 20th Century's defining moments.   Full Coverage