FACTBOX - Security developments in Iraq, March 30

Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:22pm BST
 
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(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 11:15 a.m. British time Monday.

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* BAQUBA - A bomb attached to a bicycle killed three labourers and wounded eight others in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said.

* MOSUL - A roadside bomb killed one soldier and wounded two others, including a major, when it struck their patrol in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* MOSUL - Gunmen in a moving car shot dead a civilian in western Mosul, police said.

* MOSUL - A bomb targeting a police patrol killed one policeman and wounded four others in western Mosul, police said.

* MOSUL - Gunmen shot dead a senior official in the Mosul branch of Displacement and Migration Office and seriously wounded his aide as they left their office in northern Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - A bomb attached to the car of an intelligence officer in the interior ministry killed him and another passenger and wounded eight passers-by Sunday in Adhamiya district, northern Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen in a car shot dead Abdullah Al-Sebaawi, a local leader of the Iraqi Islamic Party, Sunday in the city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

 

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