FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Jan 24
Mon, 24 Jan 2011 18:10 GMT
Jan 24 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1810 GMT on Monday.
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*MOSUL - Four gunmen wounded a provincial oil official, Taha Othman, on the doorsteps of his home in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
*FALLUJA - Gunmen killed the imam of a mosque after evening prayers in the western city of Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - Armed men using silenced weapons opened fire on the car of an Iraqi police colonel, killing him in the Amil district of southwestern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.
KERBALA - A car bomb killed between eight and 10 people and wounded around 92 others, 10 km (6 miles) north of Kerbala, Iraq's Deputy Health Minister Khamis al-Saad and provincial officials said.
RIYADH - The Iraqi army found the bodies in a car of two government-backed Sahwa members showing signs of torture and bullet wounds near the town of Riyadh, 50 km (30 miles) southwest of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, army sources said.
KERBALA - A car bomb killed between four and six people and wounded up to 49 in the holy Iraqi Shi'ite city of Kerbala, 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Baghdad, an Iraqi army captain and health officials said.
BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb went off near the house of a brigadier general working for the cabinet, killing him and wounding an intelligence officer in the Ghazaliya district of western Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.
BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb exploded near a petrol station and wounded eight people in Baghdad's northwestern Shula district, an Interior Ministry source said.
TIKRIT - The governor of Salahuddin province, Ahmed al- Jubouri, escaped unharmed from a roadside bomb attack in central Tikrit, 150 km (95 miles) north of Baghdad, police and provincial officials said. Five of his security guards were wounded.
(Compiled by Baghdad newsroom)
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