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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Jan 18

18 Jan 2010 09:14:52 GMT

Source: Reuters

Jan 18 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 0900 GMT on Monday.

*denotes new or updated item

*MUQDADIYA - A motorcycle bomb placed outside police headquarters killed one policeman and wounded five others in Muqdadiya, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said.

*BAGHDAD - A bomb attached to a military vehicle wounded an army officer and a passerby in central Baghdad, police said.

*FALLUJA - A bomb attached to a car killed two people, including a policeman, in central Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A bomb attached to a car wounded two people in Mashtal district, eastern Baghdad, on Sunday night, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen in a speeding car shot dead a man in northern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, on Sunday night, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen shot dead a man near his house in central Mosul on Sunday night, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen in a speeding car shot dead a man in eastern Mosul on Sunday night, police said.

KIRKUK - Police found the body of a woman with bullet wounds to the head and chest in the south of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, on Sunday night, police said.

KIRKUK - A shepherd was wounded when a mine dating back to the days of Saddam Hussein exploded north of Kirkuk on Sunday, police said.