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Factbox - Security developments in Iraq, 22 Oct 2009


Oct 22 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1600 GMT on Thursday.

* Denotes new or updated incidents

*MOSUL - A roadside bomb in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, targeted a police patrol, killing one police officer, police said.

*MOSUL - A roadside bomb in northern Mosul wounded three civilians.

*MOSUL - Armed men in a speeding car killed a pedestrian for unknown reasons in eastern Mosul, police said.

BAQUBA - A roadside bomb wounded the head of a Diyala province Awakening Council, an anti-al Qaeda Sunni group, and another person south of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said.

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