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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Oct 9

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Saturday, 9 October 2010 01:21 GMT

Oct 9 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1300 GMT on Saturday.

* denotes new or updated items

* BAGHDAD - A bomb attached to a car of an employee of the Shi&${esc.hash}39;ite Endowment, a government body that runs Shi&${esc.hash}39;ite religious offices and mosques, exploded, wounding him and three passers-by in Baghdad&${esc.hash}39;s eastern district of Mashtal, police said.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol wounded three civilians in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

ABU GHRAIB - Gunmen stormed a house and killed a man and wounded four of his family members, including two women, in a pre-dawn attack in Abu Ghraib on the western outskirts of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded four civilians when it went off in Baghdad&${esc.hash}39;s southern district of Doura, an Interior Ministry source said.

GARMA - Three brothers employed by the Culture Ministry were killed, and one of their relatives was wounded, when gunmen in two cars opened fire on their car in Garma, 30 km (20 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said. (Compiled by Baghdad newsroom)

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