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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Dec 2

Thu, 2 Dec 2010 07:23 GMT

Source: reuters // Reuters

Dec 2 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 700 GMT on Thursday.

MOSUL - Gunmen stormed a house and killed a teenage girl in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, a police source at the Nineveh province operations centre said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol wounded one policeman and two civilians in eastern Baghdad, an interior ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen using silenced weapons shot dead a human rights ministry employee near his house in eastern Baghdad, an interior ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol wounded two policemen in Baghdad's western district of Ghazaliya, an interior ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb exploded and wounded three civilians in central Baghdad, an interior ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - A sticky bomb attached to a car wounded the driver in Baghdad's northern district of Adhamiya, an interior ministry source said.

(Compiled by Baghdad newsroom)

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