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Factbox - Security developments in Iraq, 17 Jul 2007

July 17 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1100 GMT on Tuesday:

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* BAGHDAD - At least 10 people were killed, including four Iraqi soldiers, by a suicide car bomb targeting an Iraqi Army patrol in the Zayouna district of eastern Baghdad, police said.

* SUWAYRA - Police recovered five bodies from Tigris river in the town of Suwayra, south of Baghdad, police said.

* YUSUFIYA - A bomb killed one policeman and wounded four other people in Yusufiya, 15 km (nine miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Three people were killed and five wounded in a drive-by shooting as people queued for petrol in the central Baghdad district of Mansour, police said.

YUSUFIYA - One policeman was killed and four civilians wounded by a roadside bomb near Yusufiya, police said.

BAGHDAD - At least 12 suspected insurgents were killed by U.S. troops during a clash in eastern Baghdad on Monday, the military said on Tuesday.

BAGHDAD - At least four people were killed and five others wounded by a car bomb inside a parking lot near the Iranian Embassy in central Baghdad, police said.

SAMARRA - Gunmen ambushed and killed the director of Dhuluiya hospital and wounded three other hospital employees near Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BALAD - An Iraqi judge was shot dead by gunmen at a fake checkpoint near Balad, 80 km (53 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Twenty five bodies were found dumped around Baghdad on Monday, police said.

JURF AL-SAKHIR - Five people were killed in clashes between suspected al Qaeda militants and Islamic Army insurgents linked with former Saddam Hussein loyalists near Jurf al-Sakhar, 85 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.