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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Dec 19

Dec 19 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1445 GMT on Sunday.

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* MOSUL - Iraqi army forces found the bodies of 11 badly decomposed bodies, believed to be men, in a mass grave in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, Colonel Imad Edden Abdul Karim, an officer in the Iraqi army's second division, based in Mosul, said.

BAGHDAD - Three policemen and three Iraqi soldiers were wounded when two roadside bombs exploded in succession in Baghdad's western Ghazaliya district, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen stabbed a policeman to death as he was leaving his home in Baghdad's southern Saidiya district, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - A sticky bomb attached to a car wounded the driver in Baghdad's northeastern Palestine Street, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a neighbourhood security guard on Saturday night as he was doing his shift in the Abu Ghraib area on the western outskirts of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - Four people were wounded on Saturday by a roadside bomb in central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. (Compiled by Baghdad newsroom)