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Factbox - Security developments in Iraq, 9 July 2007

July 9 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 0800 GMT on Monday:

BAGHDAD - Two roadside bombs killed four people and wounded 21 when they exploded minutes apart near Baghdad's main bus terminal in the city centre, police said.

BAGHDAD - One civilian was killed by a roadside bomb in the central Shi'ite district of Karrada and four other people were wounded, police said.

BAGHDAD - Twenty nine bodies were picked up from the streets of the capital on Sunday, police said.

BAGHDAD - Four members from the same family were strangled to death by militants who kidnapped them from the mainly Sunni district of Ghazaliya on Sunday, police said.

BAGHDAD - One person was killed and two others wounded by gunmen who stormed a house in the mainly Sunni west Baghdad neighbourhood of Jamia on Sunday, police said.

KIRKUK - Police found the body of one man with torture marks in the northern city of Kirkuk on Sunday, police said.

BAGHDAD - Insurgents killed two policemen and two Iraqi soldiers in an ambush as they responded to a bomb tip-off in the Sunni district of Adhamiya, police said.