FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Oct 4

04 Oct 2010 19:50:18 GMT
Source: Reuters
Oct 4 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1930 GMT on Monday.

* Indicates a new or updated item.

* MOSUL - A sticky bomb attached to the car of a civilian went off when an army vehicle was passing by, wounding 11 people in the south of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol exploded, wounding an officer, in eastern Mosul, police said.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army security checkpoint wounded a soldier in eastern Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen stormed a goldsmith shop on Palestine Street in eastern Baghdad and killed the two owners with silenced weapons before looting the store of gold and cash, police said.

KIRKUK - Gunmen in a speeding car threw a hand grenade at a local teacher's house, wounding two children in central Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - Two guards from an office belonging to the Turkman party were wounded when gunmen threw a hand grenade at them in northern Kirkuk, police said.

KIRKUK - A roadside bomb targeting a convoy of elections commission employees exploded, wounding two convoy guards in southern Kirkuk, police said.

GARMA - A sticky bomb attached to the car of Tahreer Khadim, an Iraqi cameraman working for Alhurra, a U.S.-based Arabic-language satellite television channel, killing him in Garma, 30 km (20 miles) northwest of Baghdad, said a local police source.

JALAWLA - Four policemen were killed and two wounded when a roadside bomb exploded during their patrol in Jalawla, 115 km (70 miles) northeast of Baghdad, a source in Diyala's operations command said, adding that the security force was in the area to check on an earlier explosion nearby.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting the convoy of police Brigadier Amir Hameed, embassy protection department of the Interior Ministry, wounded him and four others including two civilians in Karrada district of central Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting the convoy of Fouad al-Moussawi, deputy science and technology minister, killed one of his guards and wounded four civilians in Karrada district of central Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb went off near a car owned by a member of a state-backed organisation helping families of those killed for political reasons, wounding two people in Karrada, police said.

BAGHDAD - A sticky bomb attached to a car wounded a government employee working for the labour and social affairs ministry, in northwestern Baghdad, an interior ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - A sticky bomb attached to a car belonging to a police officer and parked in Baghdad's northwestern Hurriya district, exploded and wounded two passers-by on Sunday night, police said.

MOSUL - A gunman killed a university professor after storming his house in western Mosul, on Sunday, police said.