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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 8

May 8 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1225 GMT on Saturday.

* denotes a new or updated item.

* MOSUL - Gunmen killed a woman at a butcher shop in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A bomb attached to an Iraqi soldier's car killed him in northern Baghdad, police said.

SULAIMAN PEK - Two bombs planted in a house killed a landlord and his wife in Sulaiman Pek, 160 km (100 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi security forces killed a militant carrying a bomb in Baghdad's northern district of Adhamiya, the Baghdad security spokesman's office said.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol, wounding two civilians, in central Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb exploded near a joint patrol of the Iraqi army and a government-backed militia, wounding six soldiers and three militia members, in western Baghdad on Friday, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed an off-duty policeman returning to his house in the Wana district north of Mosul on Friday, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a police official who works in the department overseeing Baghdad security checkpoints, in front of his house in Baghdad's eastern district of Sadr City on Friday, police said.