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Factbox - Security developments in Iraq, 23 Dec 2008

Dec 23 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1200 GMT on Tuesday.

TARMIYA - A roadside bomb killed five people, including a police colonel and his wife, and wounded three others when it exploded near a police convoy in Tarmiya, 25 km (15 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MUSSAYAB - Police found the body of a man, who appeared to have been strangled, in the town of Mussayab, 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad.

KIFL - Police found a dead man, whose hands and feet were bound and who appeared to have been tortured, on Monday in the town of Kifl, 150 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - Police found the body of a man who had been stabbed to death in a residential area of eastern Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad.