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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, July 19

July 19 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1730 GMT on Monday.

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*BAQUBA - Up to four people were killed and around 15 wounded when a car bomb inside the parking lot of a cafe blew up in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, hospital officials said.

FALLUJA - A sticky bomb attached to car of an anti-al Qaeda Sahwa militia leader killed him in western Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - Gunmen on a motorcycle shot and injured a civilian in southeastern Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - A suicide car bomber ploughed into a convoy carrying employees of a British company, killing four of them and wounding five Iraqi civilians, in northern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraqi security officials said.

BAGHDAD - Two roadside bombs targeting a convoy carrying a deputy of the Agriculture Minister wounded five people, including a bodyguard of the official, in central Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded three civilians in southwest Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen equipped with silenced weapons shot dead a former Nineveh Provincial Council member as he left his village mosque on Sunday in Qahira, near Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb went off in the Mansour district of western Baghdad on Sunday, wounding two, a Ministry of Interior source said.

KIRKUK - Gunman in a car shot dead a civilian on Sunday in southern Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. (Compiled by Baghdad newsroom)