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More news from Reuters

FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, July 31

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 07:25 GMT

Source: reuters // Reuters

Following are security developments in Iraq at 0630 GMT on Sunday.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen using silenced weapons opened fire and killed a senior official from the ministry of higher education with his son near their home in Baghdad's Ghazaliya district, an interior ministry source said.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb exploded near a convoy carrying the head of Nineveh provincial council, wounding three of his security guards late on Saturday in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

(Compiled by Baghdad newsroom)

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