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Factbox - Security developments in Iraq, 15 Mar 2009

March 15 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1200 GMT on Sunday.

DAQUQ - Police said they found the bodies of three men with gunshot wounds in the town of Daquq, 200 km (125 miles) north of Baghdad.

MOSUL - Gunmen in a car opened fire and killed an off-duty lieutenant colonel officer in central Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A bomb attached to a car killed Abdul-Latif Salih, a petroleum expert, in the Ghazaliya district of western Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A bomb attached to a car killed the brother of the U.S.-backed neighbourhood patrols leader in northern Baghdad on Saturday, police said. Four members of his family were wounded in the blast.

BAGHDAD - Three people were wounded by a roadside bomb on Saturday in the Dawoudi district of western Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two Iraqi soldiers were wounded on Saturday when a roadside bomb exploded near an Iraqi army patrol in the Mansour district of western Baghdad, police said.