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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Dec 7

Dec 7 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1830 GMT on Tuesday.

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* ABU GHRAIB - Armed men opened fire on a police checkpoint, killing one policeman, in Abu Ghraib, on the western outskirts of Baghdad, police said.

* ABU GHRAIB - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed two soldiers when it went off on the outskirts of Abu Ghraib, police said.

* MOSUL - A security guard and two teachers were wounded when a roadside bomb went off near the entrance of a private school in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, a source from the provincial police operations room said.

* TAL AFAR - One person was killed and three others wounded when a bomb hidden inside a computer exploded at a repair shop in Tal Afar, about 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - Two mortar rounds landed in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone government and diplomatic enclave, a source in the Interior Ministry said.

BAGHDAD - Two civilians were wounded when a roadside bomb went off in the southern Baghdad district of Doura, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb exploded near a car carrying three agents of the interior ministry's intelligence department, wounding all three, in central Baghdad, an interior ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol went off and wounded three policemen in the Saidiya district of southern Baghdad, an interior ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen shot dead Sameer Esmail, a manager with the Baghdad municipal government, and wounded his driver in the Amiriya district of western Baghdad, an interior ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb went off and wounded four civilians in central Baghdad, an interior ministry source said.

(Compiled by Baghdad newsroom)