FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Dec 8
Wed, 8 Dec 2010 08:20 GMT
Dec 8 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 0815 GMT on Wednesday.
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* TAJI - A parked car bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed two civilians and wounded 17 others when it went off in the town of Taji, 20 km (12 miles) north of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.
BAGHDAD - Seven Iranian pilgrims were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near their bus in the southern Baghdad district of Doura, police said.
BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb went off late on Tuesday near a police patrol in the mainly Shi'ite Bayaa district of southwestern Baghdad, wounding two policemen, police said.
TARMIYA - Gunmen opened fire on the home of a lieutenant colonel in the Iraqi interior ministry on Tuesday, killing his daughter and wounding two other family members, in the mainly Sunni area of Tarmiya, 25 km (15 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
(Compiled by Baghdad newsroom)
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