FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 16
Mon, 16 May 2011 09:15 GMT
May 16 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 0900 GMT on Monday.
BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb blew up near a convoy carrying Baghdad Provincial Council leader Kamel al-Zaidi, wounding eight people including three of his bodyguards, in Baghdad's northeastern Sadr City district, an Interior Ministry source said.
BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded two policemen and a civilian in central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.
BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded three Norwegians and two Iraqi employees of the Water Resources Ministry when it went off near their vehicle in eastern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.
BAGHDAD - Gunmen using silenced weapons shot dead a traffic police officer in central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.
KIRKUK - Police found the body of a man in his thirties, believed to be a Christian kidnapped several days ago, in northern Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, a police source said.
MOSUL - An Interior Ministry bomb squad defused a sticky bomb attached to a car belonging to the judge who heads the criminal court of Nineveh province, in central Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD - A bomb attached to a vehicle killed an Interior Ministry worker late on Sunday in Baghdad's southern Saidiya district, an Interior Ministry source said.
BAGHDAD - Gunmen on a speeding motorcycle, using silenced weapons, wounded a civilian late on Sunday in the Hurriya district of northwestern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.
MOSUL - Gunmen in a speeding car attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint in western Mosul on Sunday, killing a soldier and wounding a child, police said.
MOSUL - Gunmen in two cars shot dead the son of a civilian contractor in a town northwest of Mosul on Sunday, police said.
(Compiled by Baghdad newsroom)
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