FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 2

Wed May 2, 2007 11:20pm BST
 
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(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 8:30 p.m. British time on Wednesday:

* denotes new or updated item.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed 10 people and wounded 35 near a police station in the Baghdad Shi'ite stronghold of Sadr City, police said.

* BAGHDAD - Three U.S. soldiers died in two separate roadside bomb attacks in Baghdad on Wednesday, the U.S. military said. Two soldiers died and two others were wounded in one bombing in a southern Baghdad. Another female soldier was wounded and later died in a similar attack in western Baghdad.

BAGHDAD - Thirty bodies have been found around Baghdad in the past 24 hours, police said. All had been shot.

BAGHDAD - Several mortar rounds landed in Abu Dshir, a residential district in southern Baghdad, killing three people and wounding eight, police said.

BAGHDAD - A mortar round landed in Sadr City in Baghdad, wounding five people, police said.

MAHMUDIYA - A bomb planted inside a minibus killed up to 11 people in the town of Mahmudiya, about 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

MAHMUDIYA - Several mortar rounds killed three people and wounded 15 others in Mahmudiya, police said.  Continued...

 

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