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Factbox - Security developments in Iraq, 29 Apr 2008

April 29 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 0800 GMT on Tuesday:

NEAR BAQUBA - A female suicide bomber killed one member of a U.S.-backed Sunni neighbourhood patrol and wounded five others in their station northeast of Baquba, 65 km (42 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - One person was killed and 24 others were wounded in clashes overnight and in the early morning in Sadr City, eastern Baghdad, police and hospital sources said.

NEAR KIRKUK - Two bodies were found with gunshot wounds just outside Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - A roadside bomb struck an Iraqi Army patrol, wounding seven people including three soldiers in southern Kirkuk, police said.

KIRKUK - A roadside bomb wounded two policemen when it targeted their patrol in central Kirkuk on Monday, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb blew up outside the house of Dhiyaa al-Judi, a civil servant in the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, killing him and wounding two of his guards in the Utaifiya district of eastern Baghdad, police said. (compiled by Aws Qusay, editing by Tim Cocks and Robert Woodward)