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Factbox - Security developments in Iraq, 26 Apr 2009

April 26 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 2030 on Sunday.

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* KIRKUK - A Christian woman was killed inside her home in southern Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Another woman was wounded in the attack.

* KIRKUK - Within hours of that raid, armed men stormed the house of another Christian family in the same part of Kirkuk and shot dead one man, wounding his brother and father.

BAGHDAD - A policeman was killed by a roadside bomb that exploded in the Doura neighbourhood of southern Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - A man was killed in front of his home in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Two brothers were killed in a drive-by shooting in Mosul, police said.