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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Oct 26

by Reuters
Tuesday, 26 October 2010 07:12 GMT

Oct 26 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1915 GMT on Tuesday.

* Denotes new or updated item.

* KIRKUK - At least 10 people were killed, including five policemen, when gunmen attacked a goldsmiths' market in the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police and hospital sources said.

TAL AFAR - A roadside bomb went off near a police checkpoint in the town of Tal Afar, 420 km (260 miles) north of Baghdad, killing one person and wounding five others from the same family, police said.

TAL AFAR - A roadside bomb went off near a police checkpoint close to Tal Afar and killed one person, police said.

KHALIS - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed six soldiers near Khalis, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol wounded a civilian in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb killed a civilian in eastern Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting the convoy of Mehdi al-Alak, a deputy planning minister and head of the statistics office, wounded two of his bodyguards and two passers-by in central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - One person was wounded late on Monday when a sticky bomb attached to his car went off, an Interior Ministry source said.

(Compiled by Baghdad newsroom)

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