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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Sept 17

17 Sep 2010 15:00:17 GMT

Sept 17 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1500 GMT on Friday.

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*MOSUL - An off-duty soldier was killed by gunmen in a marketplace in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, a police source in the provincial police operations centre said.

*MOSUL - A suspected militant was killed in a gunfight when an Iraqi army unit raided a house in eastern Mosul, a media official in the 2nd Iraqi Army Division said. Four suspected militants were arrested and an explosives belt seized.

BAGHDAD - A police official working in the embassy protection department of the Interior Ministry was killed by a bomb attached to his car in Mansour district of western Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol wounded two policemen in Adhamiya district, northern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

KIRKUK - Police found the bulled-riddled body of a man in eastern Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.