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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Aug 13

Aug 13 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1300 GMT on Friday.

GARMA - Gunmen equipped with silenced weapons shot dead an Iraqi police officer late on Thursday in central Garma, 30 km (20 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said.

SAMARRA - 18 people were wounded, including three policemen, when three bombs, targeting the house of a government Sunni militia leader and the houses of two police officers, exploded in central Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

(Compiled by Baghdad newsroom)