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Factbox - Security developments in Iraq, 28 Sept 2007

Sept 28 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 0600 GMT on Friday.

RAMADI - Policemen killed three insurgents and arrested two others who attacked a police patrol and killed one policeman in Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, on Thursday, police said.

BAGHDAD - Eight bodies were found in different districts of Baghdad on Thursday, police said.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb killed one man and wounded another in central Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, on Thursday. Police said the men may have been trying to plant the bomb when it detonated.

BAGHDAD - The bodies of an Iraqi police lieutenant and his wife were found on Tuesday with gunshot wounds and signs of torture in Baghdad's Sunni district of Adhamiya, the U.S. military said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed a former Iraqi army officer near his home in central Mosul on Thursday, police said.