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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Nov 20

20 Nov 2010 15:32:31 GMT

Source: Reuters

Nov 20 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1530 GMT on Saturday.

* denotes new or updated item

* MOSUL - Gunmen shot dead a former army colonel and wounded a prominent tribal figure in a drive-by shooting in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* MOSUL - Clashes between gunmen and an Iraqi army unit wounded a child in western Mosul, police said.

SHIRQAT - A bomb planted near the house of a policeman killed his wife and wounded his son, in the town of Shirqat, 300 km (190 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. The policeman was not in the house at the time of the explosion.

SHIRQAT - A sticky bomb attached to the car of an Iraqi army lieutenant colonel wounded two security guards but the army officer escaped unharmed in the town of Shirqat, police said.

MOSUL - Iraqi soldiers killed an armed man who tried to detonate a suicide bomb vest during a search of his house in eastern Mosul on Friday, police said. The search turned up hand grenades and other weapons, police said. (Compiled by Baghdad newsroom)